? Ecuador’s government said Wednesday it will expel a U.S. Embassy official who allegedly disputed the transfer of a senior police investigator amid a growing diplomatic spat over Washington’s aid to the South American nation.

It is the second expulsion order against a U.S. Embassy official this month by President Rafael Correa, who has accused American officials of “insolence” for conditioning aid on the right to veto personnel choices.

Mark Sullivan, the Embassy’s first secretary in the embassy’s office of regional affairs, must leave the country within 48 hours because of his “unacceptable meddling,” Foreign Minister Fander Falconi said.

Falconi said Sullivan, in a meeting with police in early February, questioned a decision by Ecuadorean Police Chief Jaime Hurtado to transfer the head of the Special Investigations Unit to another police post.