From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 24, 2025, p. 4
The president de facto From Peru, José Jerí, did not rule out attacking the Mexican embassy, where former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez is taking refuge, warning: “I am not limiting myself. If you have to enter the Mexican embassy, it will be done.”
In an interview with the newspaper The Commerce And to the question about the court decision that last Friday handed down five months of preventive detention to Chávez, and whether he would do the same as the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, who ordered the attack on the Mexican embassy, and kidnapped former vice president Jorge Glass, who was asylum in the diplomatic legation, in April 2024, Jerí responded:
“Mexico knows that if Betssy Chávez leaves the embassy, she will be captured immediately. It also knows that there are Peruvian police officers outside and that is visible. We have not yet meditated with the prime minister and the cabinet on what concrete measure we will take, because we have only just learned of the sentence.
“We are going to meditate a lot. Every action must be thought out in accordance with the limitations we have, in accordance with the international commitments we have. There is a judicial mandate today and I am a person open to all types of possibilities and decisions.
“I do not limit myself and, if you have to enter the Mexican embassy, it will be done. I have demonstrated with concrete actions, that many did not expect it, that my hand does not shake. I am convinced that we are all judged by actions,” he added.
Jerí was not elected by citizen vote to assume the presidency; He was president of Congress and was appointed interim head of the Executive, after the dismissal of the president de facto Dina Boluarte, on October 10.
Chávez was prime minister in the administration of the deposed president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), dismissed in a coup d’état by Parliament, after the president ordered the dissolution of the Legislature, on December 7, 2022.
Contradictory positions
Earlier this month, Peru broke ties after learning that Mexico granted Chávez asylum. The Caracas Convention establishes that the asylum country is the one that determines whether the applicant meets the conditions to receive asylum, and in this case Peru is obliged to grant safe passage for Chávez to leave the country.
However, Peru falsely maintains that the Caracas Convention has been “inappropriately” used in the Chávez case, and alleges that the former prime minister is accused of a common crime and is not a victim of political persecution.
In this regard, Jerí declared to The Commerce that “all that you say is part of a defense strategy totally far from reality. No one is persecuted in Peru, no former president is kidnapped. I am not a dictator and I have only fulfilled the mandate of the Constitution. I understand that they talk nonsense as part of a political defense rather than a legal one. People already know who is who, there is nothing to invent anything, it is facts that count.”
Asked if relations with Mexico will be restored when President Claudia Sheinbaum leaves the government, Jerí pointed out that “unfortunately, our political relations since 2021 have been very fickle due to excessive interference by some countries in autonomous decisions. We are a sovereign country and our relations have been damaged because other presidents have allowed these excesses. I am not going to allow it. I will be 39 years old, but I know what I have to do and I think about it well. I have no type of fear.”
The Commerce He told Jerí that “if he decides to enter the Mexican embassy so that Chávez can serve his sentence, the Latin American left will fall on him.”
Given this, the president de facto He said: “I’m not afraid when I know I’m doing the right thing.”
Furthermore, he was reminded that the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, indicated that if Peru breaks into the Mexican embassy, Bogotá would withdraw its representation from Lima.
“Foolish words, deaf ears,” he asserted.
After the interview was revealed in the afternoon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated yesterday that the government of Peru committed to “respect the immunities of Mexico in that country, including the inviolability of its properties in Lima, within which the official residence is located, as well as its assets and archives, in accordance with the Vienna conventions on Diplomatic Relations and Consular Relations of 1961 and 1963, respectively.”
With information from Ap
