Peru withdraws its ambassador from Mexico due to criticism received

LIMA (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced on Friday the permanent withdrawal of her ambassador to Mexico in response to criticism from that country’s president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, whom she accuses of “seriously affecting” relations of respect. mutual to “favor ideological affinities”.

During his traditional morning press conference, the Mexican president said in reference to Boluarte that he had seen polls “where the fake president has 15% acceptance and 85% disapproval.” He also said that members of the Peruvian parliament had even less approval. “They have 90% rejection and even so they govern with bayonets and with repression, force,” López Obrador said.

Boluarte reacted in the night and rejected “the expressions formulated today by the President of Mexico on the internal affairs of Peru and the unacceptable questions that he repeatedly formulates on the constitutional and democratic origin of my government”.

With the ambassador’s withdrawal, diplomatic relations between Peru and Mexico “remain formally at the level of the charges d’affaires”, the president said in a statement at the presidential palace in Lima.

Dina Boluarte began her term on December 7 after then-President Pedro Castillo was ousted by parliament and imprisoned after trying to dissolve Congress to avoid a vote on impeachment. Since then, there have been nearly three months of protests that have claimed 60 lives, including 48 from direct clashes with police and a policeman burned in a patrol car.