“Mexico does not interfere in the affairs of the country, but Pedro Castillo cannot get asylum,” says Rodriguez Mackay.

After the arrest of the former president Pedro Castillo in Lima Prefecture and his later transfer to Diroes, it became known that he tried to contact Embassy of Mexico in Peru seeking political asylum. The request was confirmed by Mexican President Manuel Andrés López Obrador (AMLO) last Thursday.

In addition, the former President of Peru was visited by the Ambassador of Mexico. Pablo Monroy, in Dirois, after which office The national government called this official and described the statements of the Mexican authorities as “interference in the internal affairs of Peru.”

“This is not interference”

Given these facts, former Foreign Minister Miguel Rodríguez Mackay explained that the actions taken by the Mexican Embassy against the former President Pedro Castillo according to international doctrine, they are not acts of interference in the internal affairs of a country.

“Doctrine says these efforts and asylum are not hostile because they are humanitarian in nature and never qualify as interference in internal affairs. The first Spanish-Portuguese American Congress in Madrid in 1953 described it this way: they are not hostile. actions or interference in internal affairs when the administration or process must complete the asylum,” he said in News extension.

He also pointed out that “calling the ambassador Mexico”was an ‘unnecessary action’ on the part of office.

“Call the ambassador Mexico It’s a fashionable practice, but I don’t see the need for it. When it comes to asylum, the doctrine does not approve of it as interference in the internal affairs of the state,” he stressed.

In turn, the former chancellor indicated that he was waiting for the appointment of a new foreign minister in order to “put things in order” and ensure the improvement of bilateral relations with Mexico.

“We must put things in order in our international life. Pedro Castilloour relations with neighboring countries, with Mexico, no need to ideologize them. We already know how the Mexican president thinks, we may have disagreements with him, but he is a man and Mexico this is a state. Relations from state to state, and this is what we must preserve in order to improve our ties in the international and pan-American system,” he said.

“We should not consider this otherwise than as a circumstance that has a political shell. The presence of the Mexican ambassador, in my opinion, was only of a humanitarian nature, nothing more; but relations between Mexico and Peru are public and the President must support them,” he added.

“Asylum is not suitable for Pedro Castillo”

Secondly, Rodriguez He explained that a possible asylum in Mexico for the former president is not possible given the current circumstances in which he finds himself.

“This does not qualify, because these are ordinary crimes. There is a whole set of clear objective accusations and violation of the constitutional order. All this is the pure order of Peruvian punitive legislation. It does not qualify as asylum (…) because there are no political crimes, but ordinary crimes that are limited by purely national legislation,” he said.

In turn, he indicated that the Government of Mexico believed that Lock He is politically persecuted, but not by the Peruvian state.

“According to this country, efforts are being made to obtain asylum because it believes that he is being subjected to political persecution. Mexico thinks so, but Peru does not. There is no possible format for granting asylum because there is no prerogative. ask Mexico, this country can’t walk into a Peruvian jail and say, “Well, I’m taking him out of here because he’s asking me for asylum.” It doesn’t exist,” he said.

Rodriguez McKay pointed out that political asylum is possible only in two cases: at the entrance to the embassy or when applying in another country. As stated, none of them apply to Castillo.

“These two types of asylum did not happen to the former President Castillo because he not only left government palace and he was stopped on the road after he was released, but his entry to the legation was thwarted. Therefore, he was placed in a penitentiary center, and such detention is a purely national law,” he said.