The government of Peru on Monday announced the breaking of its diplomatic ties with Mexico in response to the Mexican embassy granting asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who faces criminal charges for her participation in a failed 2022 coup attempt.
Interim President José Jerí said that Mexican ambassador Karla Ornela has a “strict deadline” to leave the country.
Chávez, a 36-year-old former lawmaker, served as Minister of Labor and then as Minister of Culture throughout 2022 during the administration of communist former President Pedro Castillo. In late November, Castillo appointed Chávez as Prime Minister, a position she only held for roughly two weeks until Castillo’s December 7, 2022 failed coup attempt.
On that day, the communist former president, hours before Congress was scheduled to carry out an impeachment vote against him, attempted to dissolve Congress and stay in power via a failed autogolpe (“self-coup”).
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