Fortunately, Chile sent us to hell to draw attention to the decision of the group in Mexico (Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico) to support President Castillo after his self-coup attempt and ousting. If there was a leader close to the ousted former president, it was President Boric. However, he believes that common sense has prevailed in respecting Peru’s constitutional formulas to address the crisis resulting from the failure to comply with the illegal procedures adopted by the former Peruvian president to temporarily dissolve the Congress and set up an exceptional emergency government, convene a new Congress and government through decrees. This, for the rest of the international community, with the exception of the Mexico group, constitutes a self-coup.
The Colombian foreign minister contacted the Chilean foreign minister to ask her to join the Mexico group in supporting the ousted president’s claim to continue his mandate as the legitimate president of Peru, a request that was flatly rejected by minister Antonia Urriola, who considered the text of the document an interference in the internal affairs of our neighboring country.
It is not an easy response for the government which had proposed, days earlier, in a gesture of solidarity and closeness to the Peruvian president, to move the venue for the meeting of the countries of the Pacific Alliance, scheduled for November 25 in Mexico City , in Lima, only so that the then president could attend since Congress did not authorize Mr. Castillo’s departure from the country.
President Gabriel Boric has distanced himself from the Mexico group. He disagrees with López Obrador, who argued that Castillo’s opponents have brought him into an environment of confrontation and hostility towards him, leading him to make decisions that have served his opponents to consummate his dismissal. Something like that went wrong because his enemies led him to go wrong.
Nor does Boric agree with Petro when he calls on the IACHR to apply the American Convention on Human Rights and to issue precautionary measures in favor of “President” Castillo.
Meanwhile, Peru is battling a mess that could lead to chaos. The square demands that Congress be punished, that elections be called to renew it and elect a new president. However, the only mechanism to deal with this institutional tangle is Parliament itself, and its members believe that a new Congress could be worse than the current one.
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Mexico has become the manager of the protests in Peru and accuses the government of “opting for repression and not for democratic methods”. A comparison of the two countries does not look good. The expulsion and withdrawal of ambassadors ends any diplomatic solution. Crime and corruption are the main problems afflicting the country and the political crisis will further aggravate all the negative aspects with serious consequences for the region.
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