The Mexican government justified this Tuesday the asylum granted to the former president of the Council of Ministers Betssy Chavez. During a press conference attended by the president Claudia Sheinbaum.
The president avoided answering questions about the tension with our country and preferred that officials from the Mexican Foreign Ministry report on the situation.
The first official who spoke assured that Mexico has delivered “a note with a request to grant safe passage so that [Betssy Chávez] leaves the country]. Likewise, he indicated that the asylum granted is within the framework of the “long tradition of political asylum that Mexico has” and in the Caracas Convention.
For her part, the undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean pointed out that only the asylum state is responsible for deciding whether the asylum seeker is politically persecuted.
Subsequently, the undersecretary for North America repeatedly referred to Pedro Castillo as “president” and considered that during his term, the former coup president was “a victim of constant harassment, sieges and attacks by those political forces and other powerful groups.”
Likewise, the Mexican diplomat, who also served as Mexican ambassador to Peru, assures that the crime of rebellion that Castillo Terrones is accused of “seems to be a crime that has never been committed.”
“That December 7, no one took up arms on the orders of Pedro Castillo,” he stated, despite the fact that Castillo, as president, was supreme head of the Armed Forces and that various congressmen denounced in the trial that police officers did not allow them to enter Congress.
The official also stated that the legal processes of Castillo and Chávez “are full of irregularities” and assured that the crime of rebellion is considered a political crime.
“Mexico does not intervene in Peru’s internal affairs and has not acted in reciprocity against extreme and disproportionate measures that have been taken by the Peruvian government,” he indicated.
Sheinbaum responds
When consulted by the press, the president of Mexico assured that “the detention of Pedro Castillo was totally unjust” and considered that “it corresponded to a political issue that had been developing for a long time.” In addition, he attributed “the political class of Peru” a “vision of a lot of discrimination” against the former head of state.
The president assured that only diplomatic relations have been broken, but consular and commercial relations are maintained. In that sense, he considered that the diplomatic decision taken by Peru was disproportionate.
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