The Peruvian Congress declares the president of Colombia persona non grata

The Peruvian Congress declared Colombian President Gustavo Petro

," who days ago compared the Peruvian police to Nazi troops.

The motion, approved on Friday night with 72 votes in favor, 29 against and seven abstentions, establishes that

, President of Colombia, is declared "persona non grata" and urges the Executive to "guarantee" that the Colombian head of state

.

Last weekend, Petro referred to the mobilization of troops by the Peruvian Police in the center of Lima, while unions and social organizations gathered a few blocks away, to protest against President Dina Boluarte.

"

, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights," the leftist president declared at the time.

After these affirmations, the Foreign Relations Commission of the Congress approved a proposed declaration to "defend the National Police", since

, according to its president, the conservative deputy María del Carmen Alva. , when presenting the approach to the plenary.

Consequently, the Peruvian Parliament called Petro's statements "unacceptable" and considered that "they constitute an offense to the Peruvian Police, to the Republic of Peru and, by trivializing the Holocaust, they also constitute an offense to all the Jewish people

" .

Petro, along with the governments of Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina, expressed their support for the ousted former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, who has been detained in a jail in Lima since December 7, accused of rebellion after he tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree.

Castillo's removal from power unleashed a wave of protests in Peru, which has so far left at least 48 civilians dead.

Since Boluarte came to power, Peruvian diplomacy had several frictions with the governments of Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia.

In fact, at the end of December, the Peruvian Congress had already approved a motion rejecting the "interference" in the internal affairs of the country by Petro and the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had expressed criticism of the management of the crisis by Boluarte.

Mexico also granted the Castillo family asylum, which led the Peruvian Executive to expel the Mexican ambassador in Lima.

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