Mexico City, (EFE).- The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused the Government of Peru on Monday of being “authoritarian and repressive” after the president of that country, Dina Boluarte, withdrew her ambassador from Mexico by the “interference” of the Mexican ruler.
“We do not accept all the farce that the removal of President Pedro Castillo has meant because the freedom of the people of Peru was not respected, democracy was trampled on and a great injustice was committed by removing him and imprisoning him, and then by establishing a de facto government authoritarian and repressive,” said López Obrador in his daily press conference.
Withdrawal of the ambassador of Peru in Mexico
His statements come after Boluarte withdrew his ambassador to Mexico, Manuel Gerardo Talavera, over the weekend because “Mr. López has decided to support the coup d’état carried out by the now former president Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022.”
López Obrador “has decided to seriously affect the relations of mutual respect, friendship, cooperation and the desire for integration that have historically united Peru and Mexico,” Boluarte denounced in a message.
But the Mexican president, who promised to continue defending Castillo after meeting last week with the Peruvian’s wife, Lilia Paredes, warned that he would not remain silent.
Lopez Obrador defends Castillo
“An oligarchy in Peru, national but above all foreign, is plundering Peru’s natural resources, gas, mining resources, and they need to have a puppet, a puppet, a ruler in their own right,” he asserted.
López Obrador compared the current situation in Peru with what happened during what he called the “neoliberal period,” the 36 years before his government, when there were reforms that benefited private investment.
“What is happening in Peru is something similar, so it is annoying, unworthy, it is a great injustice, one cannot remain silent and we are going to continue doing it (talking),” he sentenced.
The president, who has refused to hand over the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to the current Government of Peru, questioned what he perceives as the “silence” of international organizations in the face of the crisis in the Andean country.
“The world press, the most famous newspapers in the world, the OAS (Organization of American States) in the case of America, the UN, human rights organizations, nobody talks about this great injustice,” he mentioned.
