President Dina Boluarte announced tonight that Peru will withdraw its ambassador in Mexico after the expressions this morning of the president of that country, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoragainst the Peruvian government.
“I have ordered the definitive retirement of our ambassador in the United Mexican States, and in this way diplomatic relations between Peru and Mexico are formally at the level of charge d’affaires,” he said in a statement.
Last December, the Peruvian government called in consultation with its ambassador in Mexico, Manuel Talavera, when tense relations with the North American country began. López Obrador has questioned the political decisions of Peru after the coup perpetrated by Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022.
This time, Boluarte explained that this radical decision is due to the repeated interference of his Mexican counterpart in the internal affairs of Peru.
“I strongly reject the expressions made today by the President of Mexico on internal affairs in Peru and the unacceptable questions that he repeatedly makes about the constitutional and democratic origin of my government,” he said.
The Peruvian president pointed out that AMLO “has decided to affect the bicentennial relations of mutual respect, friendship, cooperation and will” between Peru and Mexico for “privileging ideological affinities”, in defense of the detained coup leader Castillo.
López reiterated today, during his daily press conference, that the Peruvian president is “spurious” and criticized both the government and the Congress of the Republic.
“I have seen polls where the spurious president has 15% acceptance, 85% disapproves but Congress still has less approval, the deputies, have 90% rejection and even so they rule with the ballonets and the repression and the strength,” he said.
