Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico issue a joint statement on the situation in Peru

The governments of Colombia, Mexico, Argentina Y bolivian they expressed this monday “its deep concern about the recent events that resulted in the removal and detention of José Pedro Castillo”who they still consider to be the president of Peru and who they see as “victim of undemocratic harassment.”

In a joint statement published by the Colombian Foreign Ministry, the four countries assured that Castle is being subjected to “object of judicial treatment in the same violative way” and asked that the “citizen will” expressed at the polls by the Peruvian people.

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“Our governments call on all the actors involved in the previous process to prioritize the will of the citizens that was pronounced at the polls”they said in the statement published after many of them had already expressed their concern about the crisis unleashed in Peru since Castle decided to dissolve Congress, in what many saw as a coup, and was arrested for it.

With this call, they also ask “those who make up the institutions to refrain from reversing the popular will expressed with free suffrage” and to the authorities that “fully respect the human rights of the president Pedro Castillo and that judicial protection be guaranteed.”

The former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo published a letter this Monday from his detention center, to which he was transferred after his dismissal last Wednesday by Congress, in which he wrote that he considers he is “kidnapped” and crossed out “usurper” to the president Dina Boluarte, who assumed the head of state after her dismissal.

Faced with this situation, the former president said in his letter on Monday that it is “unconditionally faithful to the popular and constitutional mandate” that claims to flaunt “as president” and affirmed that he will not give up his “high and sacred functions”.

Subsequently, he criticized Boluarte, elected as vice president in the formula that he led in the 2021 elections and who was sworn in as head of state after his dismissal. In particular, she questioned his proposal to advance the general elections to April 2024.

Colombia, Argentina and Bolivia thus join the defense that Mexico has been making since the events and the statements by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that he had authorized the granting of asylum to Castleat the same time that it delayed recognizing Boluarte as president.

For its part, Colombia, which initially condemned “Any attack against democracy, wherever it comes from” after the pronouncement of Castlethen through its president Gustavo Petro called the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to issue precautionary measures in favor of “President” Castle.

Source: Elcomercio

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