The Peruvian Foreign Ministry summoned this Friday the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, to convey to him its rejection of the “expressions of the Mexican authorities” that, in the opinion of the Executive, “constitute an interference in the internal affairs” of the Andean countryone day after the former president Pedro Castilloaccused of attempting to carry out a coup, will request asylum in that nation from his place of imprisonment.
“The expressions of the Mexican authorities constitute an interference in the internal affairs of Peru and are not consistent with the events that have occurred in recent days.“, reads a statement from the Foreign Ministry, currently without a titular minister, after the resignation of César Landa, who left office accusing Castillo of carrying out a coup and asking for international help to stop him.
The information, which does not detail which statements by Mexican authorities it refers to, clarifies that the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed to Monroy “the strangeness that the expressions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard have generated in Peruwith respect to the political processes in the country”.
Tense relationship between Mexico and Peru
About the right of asylum Invoked by former President Pedro Castillo, “Ambassador Monroy was told of the need for states to adhere to the standards contained in current international treaties on the matter and comply with all the requirements that they establish.”
“The Government of Peru wishes to reiterate its broadest will to continue deepening, within the framework of mutual respect and the norms of international law, the traditional relations of friendship, cooperation and desire for integration that unite the peoples of Peru and Mexico, those that will be two hundred years old in January 2023, especially in those areas that affect social development”, concludes the message.
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López Obrador revealed this Thursday in his morning conference that Castillo phoned to request asylum from the Mexican Embassy in the Andean country.
He spoke here to the office so that they would notify me that he was going to the Embassy, that he was going to request asylum and that they would open the door of the Embassy for him, but surely their telephone had already been tapped, ”said López Obrador.
AMLO with Castillo: Open the doors of Mexico to give him asylum
The president also commented that he instructed Ebrard to speak with the Mexican ambassador in Peru and open the door for Castillo to request asylum.
But soon after they took over the embassy with police and citizens, they surrounded the embassy. And he couldn’t even get out, they stopped him immediately, ”he said.
Shortly after, Ebrard confirmed that Castillo ratified before Monroy, who visited him in his detention center in Lima, the request for asylum to the Mexican government.
The foreign minister added that Mexico has begun consultations with the Peruvian authorities to carry out the asylum procedures.
Ambassador Pablo Monroy reports to me from Lima that he was able to meet with Pedro Castillo at the Penitentiary Center at 1:20 p.m. (5:20 p.m. GMT). He found it well physically and in the company of his lawyer, ”Ebrard wrote.
“We have proceeded to initiate consultations with the Peruvian authorities. I will keep you informed, ”she continued.
Castillo, from the presidency to prison
Castillo was arrested “in flagrante” by his own escort, minutes after being removed from office by Congress.
The now ex-president had dictated shortly before the temporary closure of Parliament, the establishment of a national emergency executive, a reorganization of all the bodies of the justice system, the convocation without citizen consultation of a constituent assembly and the government, meanwhile, by decree.
This order has been widely interpreted as a coup attempt.including by members of his cabinet.
The measure did not obtain the endorsement of the majority of the now ex-members of his Government, nor of the Armed Forces, the National Police, the Constitutional Court and the Judiciary.
In his replacement, the then vice president, Dina Boluarte, has been sworn in as the new head of state of Peru, who also did not hesitate to describe the measures dictated by Castillo as a coup d’état.
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