Switzerland represents Ecuador’s interests in Venezuela and Mexico, as well as being Mexico’s protective power in Ecuador – the result of a dispute that seems unlikely to end soon.
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A journalist at Swiss Radio International, the predecessor of SWI swissinfo.ch, beginning in 1999. Started out as an investigative journalist and TV reporter in Mexico.
Céline joined swissinfo.ch in 2018 as video journalist for the ‘Nouvo in English’ project, just after graduating from the Academie du journalisme et des medias (AJM) at the University of Neuchâtel. Originally from Ticino, she’s been filming, writing and interviewing people all over Switzerland since she got her first reporter badge at 11 during a school camp.
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, broke off diplomatic relations after the Venezuelan presidential elections in July 2024, and in December Ecuador asked Switzerland to accept the protecting power mandate to represent its interests in Venezuela.
This mandate with Ecuador was added to the two previous ones acquired by Bern in the context of a conflict between Mexico and Venezuela.
First, Mexico asked Bern to be the protecting power for its interests in Quito, and a few days later, Quito reached a mirror agreement with Switzerland to represent it in Mexico. The reason: a raid by the Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
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Switzerland lands in middle of dispute between Mexico and Ecuador
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Switzerland has assumed the role of protecting power for Mexico in Ecuador and vice versa, with relations between the two countries at a historic low. Can Swiss diplomacy improve the situation?
