Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday that his country is willing to grant asylum to the hitherto president of Peru, Pedro Castillo.
«If Pedro Castillo asks for asylum in Mexico, we will give it to him, but he has not requested it,» Ebrard explained in an interview for the program Atando Cabos of the radio station Radio Fórmula.
The head of Mexican diplomacy in 2019 offered political asylum to former Bolivian President Evo Morales. The former Bolivian president had formally presented the request to the Mexican government days before after allegations of electoral fraud. Two days after his departure from the country, Jeanine Áñez proclaimed herself president.
Ebrard, moreover, has shown himself to be «very concerned». «I am very attentive to the situation. The president (of Mexico, Andrés Manuel) López Obrador has asked me to inform him at all times,» he said in statements to the aforementioned radio station.
After learning of Castillo’s dismissal, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced that the Pacific Alliance Summit, which was scheduled for next Wednesday in the Peruvian capital, has been postponed.
