Ariel Albaez | December 22, 2022
On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo, who served as president of Peru, announced the establishment of an “Exception Government” and dissolution of Congress, in order to avoid a new Impeachment Motion against him, minutes before being discussed by the Chamber.
Faced with this decision, popular and political rejection was felt, achieving his removal from office in Parliament and subsequent arrest by Police units, who took him to the prison of the Directorate of Special Operations of the Peruvian Police under provisional detention. , which was later extended to 18 months of preventive detention, by order of the Judiciary.
Castillo, sought to be granted political asylum in Mexico, as confirmed by the Mexican president himself, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his morning conferences.
Faced with the weakening of Castillo’s faculties, his family was forced to leave the country for Mexico this Wednesday, November 21, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced.
In this regard, López Obrador confirmed his arrival. “His family is here, they received asylum in our Peruvian embassy in Mexico and they arrived yesterday, they are with us and they are welcome in Mexico and here we are going to take care of them and protect them.”
Regarding the process facing the removed ex-president, the Mexican president indicated that “we have already given our point of view. We maintain the same thing, that it was a blow from the conservatism of Peru, from the top brass of Peru, who, like the conservatives in Mexico and other countries, are class-minded, racist and very corrupt.
“What is in the middle are the economic interests that predominate in Peru and in Mexico are the elites, the oligarchies of the countries, not only of the American continent, but of the world, who are used to looting, stealing, their wide and that they do not care about the people and use governments as instruments to facilitate looting, robbery; and when a people from the town arrives by decision of the same people to the government, they make life impossible for him. Here we are suffering from it, but fortunately the majority of the people of Mexico are aware and no longer want an oligarchy to continue looting Mexico and impoverishing and humiliating our people,” he said.
