The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Colombian charge d’affaires and expressed his surprise at the statements by authorities in that country about recent events in Peru, after the coup d’état in Pedro Castillo and its subsequent vacancy.
Through his Twitter account, he indicated that he was reminded that in Peru there is full respect for human rights, due process and the separation of powers, “which guarantees the access of all our citizens to an independent justice”.
“The Government of Peru will continue to deepen the friendship, cooperation and integration that unite both peoples, based on mutual respect, the full validity of international law and shared values on democracy and human rights”he pointed.
As recalled, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroasked last Thursday the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) precautionary measures for the dismissed president Pedro Castillo.
“I request the IACHR to apply the American Convention on Human Rights and issue precautionary measures in favor of the President of Peru Pedro Castillo (sic)”Petro expressed on Twitter.
The president added that in the case of Castillo “The right to elect and be elected and to have an independent judging court have been violated”.
Castillo was dismissed on Wednesday by Congress for permanent moral incapacity and arrested shortly after by the Police, after the self-coup he gave in the morning of that same day when he announced the dissolution of the Legislative.
The now former president was transferred to the Barbadillo prison, where former president Alberto Fujimori is being held, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
The one who was vice president of Castillo, Dina Boluarteassumed the head of state after being sworn in before Congress, thus becoming the first woman to hold this position in Peru.
This is the second statement that Petro has made about the Castillo case, since hours before he assured that the dismissed Peruvian president “He allowed himself to be led to political and democratic suicide”while he advocated dialogue in the neighboring country.
