"The question is: do you try to push sanctions all the way back to the level that they were?" said AS/COA's vice president to the public radio network.

The raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito to seize a convicted former vice president hurts the president’s international prospects, but might help him domestically.

"[President Noboa's] image has taken a huge and well-deserved hit," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Wall Street Journal.

“A lot of it just seems so unnecessary,” says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Wall Street Journal.

"Now do you try to reimpose sanctions, and at what level?" says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Washington Post.

"I said at the time, you lift the sanctions now, you take away your own leverage," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Wall Street Journal.

"Latin America has a long tradition of these food fights between leaders on the left and the right," says AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Associated Press.