Peru’s Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, confirmed on Wednesday that Peruvian authorities have informed the Mexican government that the wife of former president Pedro Castillo, Lilia Paredes, is under investigation in the Andean nation for the alleged crime of criminal organization.
During his first press conference as Prime Minister of Peru, Otarola insisted that, in his communication with Mexico, the Andean authorities have reiterated that there is no political persecution in the country.
«In Peru there is no political persecution, the rule of law and the separation of powers prevail,» said the head of government, appointed this Wednesday by the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, in the framework of a new reform of the ministerial cabinet, the second in his barely two weeks in office.
Otárola’s words come in response to Mexico’s criticism of the country’s political situation and after Mexican authorities confirmed that Paredes, together with his two minor children, is in its territory, thus receiving asylum from the Aztec nation.
This political asylum, granted under the Caracas Convention, has been accepted by Peru by virtue of the respect that Peruvian authorities have for International Law, as reported by RPP radio station.
Relations between both Latin American nations are not going through their best moment, even more so when Mexico has questioned the last decisions related to Castillo and the promotion to the Presidency of Boluarte, until then the former president’s ‘number two’.
In this context, Otárola has called on the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to cease his allusions to Peru, and has shown his disappointment that relations «are in a lamentable state». «We are not going to allow him to continue causing meddling,» the prime minister has warned.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
