The Government of Peru expressed its “displeasure” to the Mexican authorities over some political messages on social networks published by former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who is holed up in that country’s diplomatic residence in Lima.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated in a statement that “contact was made with the Mexican authorities to convey” the “discomfort over such actions, under the provisions of Article XVIII of the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum of 1954.”
“The Peruvian Government has received confirmation that the aforementioned messages and recordings have been removed from social networks, as well as that these situations will not be repeated in the future,” the Foreign Ministry announced.
Chávez, who has remained in the Mexican residence in Lima since last November, last week published a video on his social networks in which he appears with his mother, Herminia Chino, who is a candidate for the Senate for the center-right Podemos Peru party in the general elections next April.
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That message, in which Chávez announces that his mother will travel to Tacna, his hometown, was considered by some Peruvian media and politicians as “a mockery” of the Peruvian Judiciary and even the asylum that Mexico has granted him.
The former prime minister of the dismissed former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for the crime of rebellion, like the former president, following the failed coup attempt in 2022, but days before the sentence was read she entered the Mexican Embassy, where she received diplomatic asylum.
This led Peru to break relations with Mexico at all levels, expelling the business attaché who was in charge of the Mexican delegation in Lima.
Since then, Chávez has remained in place waiting for the Peruvian Government to grant him safe passage to leave the country, but the transitional Government, chaired by the right-wing José Jerí, has proposed modifications to the Caracas Convention, which regulates political asylum, to avoid its eventual use to avoid justice.
On January 26, Peru’s Foreign Minister, Hugo de Zela, confirmed that Brazil has taken charge of the custody of the Mexican Embassy in Lima, after the breaking of diplomatic relations with Peru, and said that this measure does not affect Chávez’s situation “in any way.”
With information from EFE
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