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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 8, 2025, p. 7
Lime. Peru announced yesterday that it will consult member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) on an asylum convention before making a decision on a safe passage that allows the departure of former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, after receiving asylum at the Mexican embassy in that country.
The Peruvian decision extends the impasse diplomat between both nations. Peru decided to break relations with Mexico this week after granting asylum to Chávez, who faces charges for his alleged involvement in former President Pedro Castillo’s attempt to dissolve Congress in December 2022.
In a statement, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry indicated that it will carry out the consultation “in order to seek to modify the 1954 Caracas Convention on diplomatic asylum,” which, it considered, has been “improperly used.”
He stated that he has carried out a legal and political analysis of the Mexican request, and concluded that the aforementioned Caracas Convention “has been used improperly in recent years,” and covers “people accused of common crimes instead of cases of genuine political persecution.”
“The government of Peru considers that this practice denatures the essence of the Convention,” he added.
The South American nation accused the governments of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and the former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of having a “constant interventionist attitude in the internal affairs of Peru.”
The Mexican Foreign Ministry confirmed that the country “has not intervened in any way in the internal affairs of Peru” through a statement in which it once again defended the asylum granted to Chávez.
