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López Obrador thanks the Congress of Peru for repudiating him: "If they applauded me I would be ashamed"

2023-05-23T18:21:59.933Z

Highlights: Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been declared persona non grata in Peru. The declaration of diplomatic repudiation prevents the Mexican president from setting foot on Peruvian soil. Mexico positioned itself in favor of former President Pedro Castillo, gave asylum to his family and received the ambassador expelled from Peru. Peru's diplomatic relations have also soured with other countries in the area, such as Colombia, whose president, Gustavo Petro, was also declared personaNonGrata in February.


The Mexican president, declared persona non grata in the Andean country, charges against the Government of Dina Boluarte, with whom he maintains suspended diplomatic relations


Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his morning press conference on Tuesday. Sáshenka Gutiérrez (EFE)

The Mexican president is not going to temper the tone in his clash with the Government of Peru, nor with the Congress of that country, which has just declared him persona non grata for his latest statements in which he refuses to pass the presidency of the Pacific Alliance because he does not consider the Government of Dina Boluarte "legal or legitimate". "Thank you very much, thank you very much [for declaring me persona non grata], I would feel very bad if those legislators and the lady who holds power gave me a decoration or applauded me, maybe it would cause me shame," López Obrador said this morning. The declaration of diplomatic repudiation prevents the Mexican president from setting foot on Peruvian soil. It is not a big deal, given that the president does not have among his customs to travel, and less now, to this country, where relations are at a minimum since Mexico positioned itself in favor of former President Pedro Castillo, gave asylum to his family and received the ambassador expelled from Peru.

"The people of Mexico are empowered, it is what the Peruvian people lack, to empower themselves, and thank you very much for declaring me persona non grata, it is a bell of pride," he repeated this morning. "All our respect, admiration and affection to the people. We are well aware that [those who govern] are an elite, a rapacious minority: corrupt politicians, influence peddlers, sold out journalists, pimp intellectuals. They are not the people," the president has charged unceremoniously.

On December 7, the umpteenth government crisis was unleashed in Peru, still under the mandate of President Pedro Castillo, who dissolved Congress and decreed an emergency government on television, fed up, apparently, of the multiple occasions in which his presidency was inoperative due to the obstructions of legislators, who kept the president practically under arrest. without being able to leave the country. He ended up imprisoned minutes later and Dina Boluarte replaced him in the presidency with the intention of calling elections, something that has not yet occurred. The Mexican president immediately positioned himself in favor of Castillo and his embassy in Peru was used tirelessly to get Mexicans out of that country, as happened two weeks later with the president's family, who are still imprisoned in their country. The tension was completed with the expulsion of Ambassador Pablo Monroy on the same dates.

Pedro Castillo and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in Mexico City, in September 2021.Presidency of Mexico

But there were still fringes in the unstable diplomatic relations between the two countries. Mexico was to hand over the temporary presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru, as part of the agreement between the four countries that make it up, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Due to the turbulence in the Andean country and the consideration that López Obrador has of the current government, he has refused to make the rotating transfer to chair the working groups of the Alliance. In February, it was Dina Boluarte who decided to call her ambassador to Mexico, Manuel Gerardo Talavera, so that relations between the two countries have remained at lower levels, barely maintaining chargés d'affaires.

For the Government of Peru, López Obrador is a president who has "supported the coup d'état of Pedro Castillo", an interference that they reproach him. For the Mexican president, Boluarte is a "spurious president." Peru's diplomatic relations have also soured with other countries in the area, such as Colombia, whose president, Gustavo Petro, was also declared persona non grata in February, when he criticized the excesses of the Peruvian police, which have caused numerous victims among the demonstrators. "They march like Nazis against their own people," said the Colombian, and unleashed the box of thunder. Keijo Fujimori, leader of Fuerza Popular, also intervened in these elections, who suggested to Petro: "I am going to ask you publicly not to stick your red nose in Peru. Peru has defeated terrorism and we will not accept foreign terrorism. My total repudiation of the guerrilla Gustavo Petro."

Both Petro and López Obrador have been the presidents who have most clearly condemned the current government of Peru, as well as the departure and imprisonment of Castillo. They consider that the now former president was cornered by factual forces of his country, by political elites who hold power without calling elections. Peru lives, once again, days of unstable governments and street tensions that distance it from alliances with the leaders of other countries in its area of influence.

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Source: elparis

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