The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, applauded this Friday that the president-elect of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, has expressed her willingness for both countries to restore diplomatic relations. These ties were broken by Lima's decision after the Mexican Embassy granted asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez.
"It is good that the president-elect has the intention of recovering the relationship with Mexico," said the head of the Mexican Executive, emphasizing that it was not her Government that chose to interrupt relations between the two States.
In her usual morning press conference this Friday, Sheinbaum reiterated that "yes, we intend to recover relations with Peru," thus responding to Fujimori, who the previous day assured that for her part she has "every intention" of opening a new chapter in bilateral ties.
The Mexican president also indicated that, following Fujimori's words, she has ordered the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Velasco, to initiate conversations with the team of the future Peruvian president "to address the particularities under which diplomatic ties will be resumed."
The granting of political asylum to Chávez by the Mexican Embassy in Lima, at the beginning of November last year, was the final trigger for the rupture, which had already been brewing for some time following the dismissal and detention of former president Pedro Castillo, whose family was received on Mexican territory.
Peruvian authorities reproached Mexico for interfering in their internal affairs by granting protection to Chávez, who is convicted of rebellion charges in the framework of the case against Castillo, who is imprisoned on charges of a similar nature.
Currently, Chávez, who is requesting a safe-conduct for medical reasons, remains at the Mexican Embassy in Lima, without permission to leave the country and under the protection of Brazil, which assumed custody of the diplomatic headquarters after the rupture of relations between Mexico and Peru.