CNN —Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas has been hospitalized, days after his arrest during a high-profile raid of the Mexican embassy in Quito.
Glas was taken a hospital in Guayaquil after falling ill, the country’s national prison agency SNAI said Monday.
He became ill after he refused to eat food provided to him while in detention, the agency also said.
The news came as Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa on Monday defended the controversial police raid on Friday that led to Glas’s arrest.
Glas, who has previously been convicted twice on corruption charges, served under leftist ex-President Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017.
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