Mexico responds to Peru’s severance of diplomatic ties over asylum case: Video
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has described Peru’s decision to sever diplomatic ties with Mexico as “completely disproportionate,” after the South American country reacted to Mexico’s decision to grant asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez.
Speaking to reporters, Sheinbaum confirmed that Chávez, accused by Peru of being a co-conspirator in the 2022 attempted coup by former President Pedro Castillo, had taken refuge in Mexico’s embassy in Lima and remains there.
“When this chancellor was imprisoned, she was released and decided to request asylum in Mexico. It was evaluated here in Mexico, just as all such requests are evaluated, and she went to the Mexican embassy in Peru, where she still remains,” Sheinbaum explained.
“This is where, due to this, the current president of Peru, through his chancellor, decided to break diplomatic relations with Mexico, which from our perspective is completely disproportionate,” she added.
“Yesterday, the Mexican ambassador, the head of the embassy, asked the Foreign Ministry and was told that the consular relationship was not being broken, only the diplomatic embassy relationship,” she said. “We will wait, however, to receive official notification, because we only know it through the statements.”
Peru’s Foreign Ministry announced the diplomatic severance on Friday, citing Mexico’s repeated interference in its internal affairs.
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