AMLO calls on the Peruvian Congress to reconsider Pedro Castillo’s trip to Mexico

the mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) On Wednesday, he urged the Peruvian Congress to reconsider President Pedro Castillo’s travel permit to Mexico so that he can participate in the Pacific Alliance summit on a new date to be determined.

“That would be another option, that they grant permission and we hold the meeting in Mexico”said the Mexican ruler at a press conference together with the Chilean president gabriel boricon an official visit to Mexico.

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Along with his call to Peruvian legislators, The Mexican leader once again criticized the decision not to authorize Castillo’s trip to Mexicowhere he had to take over in the presidency of the regional Alliance.

“It is an act of humiliation (…) it is a lot of arrogance not to give permission to a legal, legitimately constituted president, to attend a formal meeting in another country”he claimed.

Lopez Obrador suspended this week the summit of the Pacific alliancewhich was to take place this Thursday and Friday, given the impossibility of Castillo to travel to Mexico.

For his part, during the press conference Boric confirmed that next week he will receive his Peruvian counterpart in Santiago and explained that Castillo’s visit to Chile will serve to “have a conversation about the conditions to resume the Pacific Alliance.”

In his morning lecture, López Obrador had already reported that he contacted his Peruvian counterpart by telephone to express his solidarity and inform him of his decision to suspend the meeting.

On Tuesday, the Mexican said that the possibility of holding a meeting in Peru in the first week of December was being explored, but without offering further details.

The Pacific Alliance is also made up of Colombia and Chile, whose presidents decided to maintain their visits to Mexico.

On the bilateral relationship, a joint statement detailed that in 2021 trade set a record of 4,212 million dollars and it was agreed that in 2023 Mexican businessmen visit Chile to increase exchanges.

They also agreed to “positively assess” their respective candidacies for international organizations, after Mexico’s criticism of the election of Brazilian Ilan Goldfajn as president of the IDB, a position for which Lopez Obrador had proposed the left-wing economist Gerardo Esquivel.

On the other hand, the Mexican president accepted Boric’s invitation to participate in the commemorative acts of the 50th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende.

Source: Elcomercio

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