Tensions between the two countries have increased over the weeks after AMLO’s remarks. (Composition: GlobeLiveMedia)

Last Friday 25, the dignitary To Boluarte – in collaboration with the Prime Minister Alberto Otarola and the chancellor Ana Gervasi announced an executive measure after the disqualifications he received from Mexico.

“I have ordered the permanent retirement of our Ambassador to the United States from Mexico and, in this way, Diplomatic relations between Peru and Mexico are formally at the charge d’affaires level“, he stated.

Previously, its Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)called him “false” and other qualifications amid his constant interference -since last December- in the internal affairs of Peru.

In this regard, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs Miguel Rodriguez Mackay He maintained that it was “obvious that this would happen in the face of a speech of absolute inconsistency and defamation” from AMLO, since the president was targeting not only the country but also Boluarte.

“It was going to happen, sooner or later. I would have preferred it to have been earlier, in light of what López Obrador said, the most sensitive thing: ignoring Dina Boluarte as the president of all Peruvians and even calling her a usurper of power. It is a correct measure, but late, “said the former manager in dialogue with Panamericana.

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs -during the management of Pedro Castillo– explained that this action does not constitute the severance of diplomatic relations with Mexico.

“I see on social media that they are talking about a severance of diplomatic relations. This did not happen, what Peru did was lower the level of bicentenary political-diplomatic relations with Mexico; that is to say of an extraordinary and plenipotentiary level of ambassadors, now come down to a business commission. To have done it diplomatically means a gesture of protest“, he explained.

Rodríguez Mackay also clarified that the link between the two countries will no longer be the same, despite the fact that the diplomatic link is maintained.

“That we don’t have any ambassadors at the moment, that relations are at that level slows everything down: in communication, in contacts, businessmen who want to contact through diplomatic missions which are natural links; everything is slower. So, yes, there is direct and material damage to the bilateral relationship,” he commented.

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