The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, confirmed this Wednesday that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, has held conversations with the new president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, with the aim of advancing towards the normalization of diplomatic relations between both countries.
The Peruvian Executive decided to break bilateral ties in November 2025, after Mexico granted asylum in its Embassy in Lima to former Prime Minister Bettsy Chávez, accused of being an accomplice in the attempted coup by former President Pedro Castillo at the end of 2022.
"The Secretary of Foreign Relations spoke personally with the president of Peru and we are making progress (...) so that the person who is in our Embassy, who is currently being sheltered by Brazil, can be given the safe conduct to come to Mexico. We will see how this develops," she stated in remarks to the press, referring to the case of Chávez.
Sheinbaum has insisted that the new Peruvian president is aware that Mexico maintains a critical "position" regarding the more than eleven-year prison sentence imposed on former President Castillo for his failed self-coup attempt.
"It is a position that we have established, but beyond that, we do not want the rupture of relations. It is within this framework that discussions are taking place and I hope that soon we can provide more news," emphasized the head of the Mexican State.
At the time, the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations rejected Lima's decision to terminate diplomatic ties, considering in a statement that it was an "excessive and disproportionate" reaction to a "legitimate act in accordance with International Law."
"Mexico reaffirms, as recognized by the United Nations General Assembly, that the granting of asylum cannot be considered an unfriendly act by any other State," the Mexican diplomacy emphasized at that time, reminding that both countries are part of the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
The Peruvian authorities, for their part, ruled out any intervention in the Mexican Embassy in Lima, distancing the possibility of an operation similar to that carried out by Ecuador in April 2024, when police and military forces stormed the Mexican legation in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.
"Peru is a country respectful of International Law and an action of that type is not provided for in any norm of International Law," stated former Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela during an appearance before the media.
Despite this, the then Peruvian president José Jerí ordered the expulsion of the head of the Mexican Embassy in Lima, Karla Onela. "She was informed today by the chancellor that she has a peremptory deadline to leave our country," he indicated on his social networks.