The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorconfirmed this Wednesday that the wife of the former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, lilia paredesand their children, Arnold and Alondra Castillo, arrived in Mexico City along with the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Paul Monroy.
(To inform you that) Ambassador Pablo Monroy, Lilia Paredes, his wife (de Castillo), Arnold and Alondra Castillo arrived in Mexico City at 07:51 in the morning (local time), coming from Lima, Peru. Welcome Pablo Monroy, ambassador, patriot,” said the president during his morning press conference.
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Paredes left this morning from the Jorge Chávez airport, which serves Lima, where she was rebuked by various passengers who also came to take a flight.
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The Peruvian government declared Monroy persona non grata on Tuesday and gave him 72 hours to leave the Andean country in response to the “interference” that they consider to have been carried out by the Mexican “high authorities” and also granted a safe-conduct to the former president’s family to come to this country, which has granted them asylum.
Channel N reported that the delegation left the residence of the Mexican ambassador in Lima accompanied by escorts. and, upon arriving at the airport, Paredes was rebuked by several passengers who called her a “scoundrel.”
Peruvian Foreign Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi reported Tuesday in a statement to the press that “the Government of Peru has declared the Mexican ambassador in Peru persona non grata, Paul Monroydue to the repeated expressions of the highest authorities of that country (…) that constitute interference” in the internal affairs of the Andean nation.
In addition, Gervasi announced that the Government granted Paredes and his children safe conduct to go to Mexico and indicated that he informed the Government of that nation that Castillo’s wife is being investigated for a common crime and that there is no “political persecution.”
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