A supreme resolution ends the functions of the diplomat Manuel Talavera, in the usual format that provides for the end of an ambassador’s mission, without mentioning the political reason.
The provision was announced last night by President Dina Boluarte, in a television appearance in which she reiterated the accusations against Mexican President López Obrador of interference in Peru’s internal affairs.
The move received applause from most of the press and was encouraged by the right-wing majority in Parliament, as well as by retired diplomats of similar positions.
For her part, the left-wing parliamentarian Silvana Robles considered the presidential decision regrettable and warned that “at this rate, we will run out of ambassadors in Latin America.”
“We are facing a regime that does not hesitate to isolate itself from any sister country that denounces the atrocities of this dictatorship,” she said, referring to the Boluarte government.
The constitutional president after the dismissal of Pedro Castillo, although she changed the policy of the administration of which she was vice president.
The fall of Castillo, last December 7, unleashed protests that are currently in ebb, calling for the resignation of the head of state and the prompt call for new general elections, and various versions of the press assure they will intensify next March.
For its part, the Peru Libre Party, which supported Castillo, rejected “the foreign policy undertaken by the Executive to deteriorate diplomatic relations with Mexico, a country that has always had a policy of friendship and cooperation with our country.”
“Isolating yourself from Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, does not favor Peru at all,” it added, in an opinion similar to that expressed previously, by analysts specialized in international politics, alien to or contrary to the Castillo government and the current one.
One of those analysts, Óscar Vidarte, contrary to López Obrador’s criticism of the Boluarte government, commented that the presidential measure was foreseeable, while “the international impact of the crisis and the affectation of the country’s image continue.”
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