The Peruvian Government, chaired by President Dina Boluarte, was honored by the Peruvian Ambassador to Colombia, Félix Denegri Boza. “Repeated interference and offensive statements” President Gustavo Petro
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The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that the Colombian president “insist on distorting the truth” without knowing that ex-President Pedro Castillo staged a coup in that country on December 7, 2022.
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“President Petro’s demeanor and his constant intrusive expressions, It seriously disrupted the historical relationship of friendship, cooperation and mutual respect that existed between Peru and Colombia.‘ he added.
Faced with this, he adds, Peru “responded in a balanced, progressive and proportionate manner, in keeping with diplomatic practice for over 200 years and taking into account the close relationship that united it with Colombia.”
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However, with the definitive withdrawal of the Peruvian ambassador in Colombia, the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic relations between the two countries “officially remain at the chargé d’affaires level.”
“Peru hopes that the close and two-century-old bilateral relationship with Colombia will continue within the framework of the norms, principles and values that govern mutual respect and coexistence between states,” the Foreign Ministry said.
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Retired ambassador Carlos Pareja explained in dialogue with Peruvian newspaper TradeHe said that consular relations between the two countries will continue in their normal course, but that the dynamics of bilateral relations will be interrupted.
“Politically, the intensity of the relationship is significantly reduced, as the ambassador has definitively withdrawn.But I don’t think it will affect the commercial aspect too much,” said Pareja, adding, “The withdrawal of the ambassador is an act of political discontent by the Peruvian government against the Colombian government. To note this.”
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs acted gradually: first, in consultation, he called the ambassador and sent several protest notes to Colombia, following Petro’s remarks, this Wednesday it finally decided to withdraw definitively.
Tensions between Colombia and Peru were escalating. Gustavo Petro became one of Castillo’s main proponents Since the political crisis broke out in Peru and several times the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIHD) has now asked the former president to intervene to enforce his political rights.
According to the Colombian president, Castillo was “cornered from day one” and, for failing to mobilize the people who elected him, “let him be driven to political and democratic suicide.”
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That’s why Petro asked the IACHR a few days ago to “enforce the American Convention on Human Rights and issue precautionary measures in favor of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.” The right to vote and be elected and the right to an independent judiciary have been violated.“.
In fact, Petro held a meeting at the Palacio de Nariño in Bogotá. Guido Croxatto, one of Castillo’s lawyersHe works hand in hand with Eugenio Zaffaroni, a former judge of the American Court of Human Rights, in the international defense of the former president.
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Hours later, a handwritten letter from Castillo to Petro was published. in the letter by Country America, The former president thanks Petro for his “support and solidarity” following his arrest.
At the recent Ibero-American Summit in the Dominican Republic, Petro confirmed that the person who should be present at this meeting of heads of state is Pedro Castillo, who was arrested while being investigated for crimes of riot and conspiracy. failed coup attempt.
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“He should have been here today, they released him. He’s in prison,” Petro said in the presence of Peruvian Foreign Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi. “If they did, they would have a dictator,” Gervasi said at the summit. said.
In mid-February, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte openly asked Petro. “Devoting himself to running his country” and stop “inciting the Peruvian people” who have been participating in anti-government protests since last December.
“From here I am telling Mr. Petro that he has dedicated himself to governing Colombia, that his streets are filled with protests and that he has let us Peruvians unravel ours,” said Boluarte at the time.
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The Peruvian Congress declared Petro persona non grata in February and rejected his statements against the Peruvian National Police (PNP) and asked the authorities to: guarantees that it does not “enter national territory”.
The resolution that raised this measure refers to some statements made by the Colombian president on February 10, in which he spoke of the extensive deployment of the PNP in the historic center of Lima in response to an anti-government demonstration the previous day.
“In Peru (police) is marching against its own people like the Nazis and violating the American Convention on Human Rights”said the Colombian president.
In response, the plenary of the Peruvian Congress expressed its rejection of the Colombian president’s “unacceptable” statements, considering it to be a “crime” against the PNP, the Peruvian State, and the “all Jewish people” by “trivializing” the “unacceptable” statements. genocide”..
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Therefore, he declared him persona non grata and urged the interior and foreign ministries to take action. “Necessary steps” to ensure that it “does not enter national territory”.
Last January, after the Peruvian government ordered the eviction of hundreds of protesters at a university in Lima, he voiced Petro’s “strong protest against a new act of intervention” in domestic politics in a diplomatic letter.
Parliament also passed a resolution at the end of last year rejecting the country’s “continuous acts of interference in the internal affairs” of the repeatedly defensive Petro and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. unsuccessful self-coup.
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The Boluarte government showed its “deep discomfort” at Petro’s statements in support of Castillo in December and described them as “unacceptable” interference in the country’s internal affairs in another diplomatic note.
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also withdrew its ambassador to Mexico in February, following statements by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador openly denying Boluarte’s legitimacy.
This Wednesday, López Obrador reiterated: “Peru’s lawful and legitimate president is Pedro Castillo, who has been wrongfully imprisoned. They accuse him, from the moment he entered, they started accusing him and imprisoned him.”
But the Mexican president added that he would meet with Petro and Chilean President Gabriel Boric to see how he would hand over the interim presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru, after refusing to do so in recent months.
WILLIAM MORENO HERNANDEZ
INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE
TIME
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