The Government of Peru assured this Monday that it is not considering emulating Ecuador with a forced entry into the Mexican Embassy in Lima to arrest Betssy Chávez, the exiled former prime minister of the leftist former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), as happened last year at the Mexican embassy in Quito with the former Correísta vice president Jorge Glas.
“That possibility does not exist. Peru is a country that respects international law and an action of this type is not provided for in any norm of international law,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Hugo De Zela, in a press conference where he announced the breaking of diplomatic relations with Mexico.
The South American Government announced breaking diplomatic relations with Mexico for granting asylum to Chávez, who is being prosecuted along with Castillo for the failed coup attempt at the end of 2022.
“The Peruvian Government has decided to break diplomatic relations with Mexico,” De Zela reported.
The chancellor explained that this decision has been made “in the face of this unfriendly act and taking into account the repeated actions in which the current and previous presidents (Claudia Sheinbaum and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, respectively) of that country have intervened in the internal affairs of Peru.”
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Chávez is currently facing a trial together with Castillo where both are accused of the crime of rebellion due to the message to the nation offered on December 7, 2022 by the former president in which he ordered the closure of Congress as well as the intervention of the Judiciary to govern temporarily by decrees.
Castillo’s message, faced with the threat of an impeachment motion from Congress after signs of corruption in his Administration came to light that directly implicated him, had no effect on the Peruvian institutions, the Police and the Armed Forces, so he was arrested shortly after.
Chávez was prosecuted along with Castillo for the alleged commission of the crime of rebellion due to suspicions that she was aware of the plans to break the democratic order and that she knew about the content of the message that the then ruler gave to the nation, although she has always denied it.
The trial began in March of this year and the Prosecutor’s Office is requesting sentences of 34 years in prison for Castillo and 25 years for Chávez, who in June 2023 had been sent to preventive detention.
However, last September he was released by order of the Constitutional Court, which determined that he had been the victim of arbitrary detention after the Prosecutor’s Office had requested an extension of the extension of preventive detention out of time.
With information from EFE.
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