Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela ruled out the possibility of law enforcement entering the Mexican embassy to remove Betssy Chávezagainst whom there is a five-month preventive detention order as part of the process for the failed coup d’état of December 7, 2022.
It all started when President José Jerí stated in an interview that “if you have to enter the Mexican embassy, it will be done.” This caused a response from the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumwho indicated that an act of this type “would violate all international laws.”
When asked about this, the Peruvian foreign minister ruled out any possibility and specified that the question asked of the president was in a hypothetical scenario. “What has happened in reality is that the answer has been disseminated in the media, but not the question. Therefore, by disseminating only the answer, it is not clear that the context in which that response was produced was a hypothetical context and that has been the problem,” he said in an interview with RPP.
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“I have spoken with the president about the issue and I can tell him with absolute clarity that this hypothesis is not going to occur in reality: the hypothesis of entering the embassy by force,” he added.
Furthermore, he assured that the political friction with Mexico did not begin after this country granted asylum to Chávez Chino, but rather began when in 2022 they welcomed the presidential family and since then they have maintained that Castillo Terrones is the constitutional president of Peru.
For his part, the Prime Minister, Ernesto Álvarez, also rejected that the Government plans to enter the embassy.
“Technically, both the speaker, who has been president of the Constitutional Court, and the chancellor [Hugo de Zela]who has a very long successful career in the diplomatic field, we know that it is not possible to try to remove a person from the scope of the diplomatic headquarters no matter how emotional they are or how much they are required by the Peruvian justice system,” he mentioned.
