More of one hundred mexican legislators have spoken energetically to reject the interference of the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador(AMLO), on the political crisis that Peru is going through following the failed coup of the detained ex-president Pedro Castillo.
A few days following confirming that the administration of AMLO granted political asylum to the former first lady lilia paredes and their two youngest children, mexican deputies They pointed out that the attitude of the Mexican president transgresses the constitutional principles of “self-determination of peoples and non-intervention.”
“We condemn the justification that the president has made regarding the coup attempt carried out by former president Pedro Castillo. Mexico must always be an example of respect for democracy and freedom and must reject any initiative to the contrary,” read a statement signed by congressmen from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), National Action Party (PAN), Citizen Movement ( MC), among other benches.
In the letter, the legislators They also expressed their solidarity with their colleagues of Peru for having received grievances from the “previous president and his followers for having defended the constitutional order.”
Los Mexican parliamentarians ended their pronouncement by acknowledging the Government of Dina Boluarte and wishing him success in his management, marked by a social upheaval that has claimed the lives of more than 20 people in different parts of the country.
“We wish President Dina Boluarte success in her task to restore peace and stability, always guided by unrestricted respect for human rights, democracy and public liberties,” the letter ends.
Diplomatic crisis between Peru and Mexico due to statements by AMLO
As a result of the political asylum granted to the wife and children of Pedro CastilloPeru and Mexico are going through a diplomatic crisis that led to the declaration of the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, as persona non grata and his subsequent expulsion from our country.
In addition to political asylum and the safe-conduct issued for the relatives of the former president to travel to Mexico, are added the repeated statements of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who -in one of his most recent addresses- said that the vacancy of Castillo Terrones was “a coup”.
“We have already given our point of view, we maintain the same thing, that it was a coup from the conservatism of Peru, from the top brass of Peru, who, like the conservatives in Mexico, are class-minded, racist and very corrupt, because what is involved are the economic interests that predominate in Peru and Mexico…”, said the Mexican president.
Not content with minimizing the arbitrary closure of Congress, ordered by Pedro Castillo in his attempt to carry out a coup, AMLO attacked the Peruvian media.
“In Peru they have complete control of the media, do an investigation of the trends of the media in Peru. I was looking at the (Twitter) account of a Peruvian journalist calling him illiterate, insulting President Castillo, ”he questioned.