Peru withdraws its ambassador in Honduras for ignoring the government of Dina Boluarte

The Peruvian government decided this Thursday to withdraw its ambassador to Honduras in response to “the unacceptable interference” in internal affairs of the president of that country, Xiomara Castro, when in her speech at CELAC she ignored the government of Dina Boluarte.

This decision It is the latest in a series of diplomatic brushes with the leaders of countries like Chile and Colombia.who have criticized the management of the social and political crisis that Peru has been experiencing for the past six weeks, when Boluarte assumed the presidency after the dismissal of the leftist Pedro Castillo.

In the 50 days of President Boluarte’s government, there has been a wave of protests, several of them violent, especially in the Andean south of the country, that have left 46 dead in clashes with law enforcement.

The note specified that after the withdrawal of Ambassador Jorge Alejandro Raffo from Honduras, bilateral relations will be maintained at the level of business managers.

Criticism also from the Chilean president

At the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held this week in Buenos Aires, the Honduran president condemned the “coup d’état” in Peru and expressed her “solidarity” with Castillo, who was ousted and imprisoned on December 7, whom he considered the “legitimate, elected” president.

The Peruvian Foreign Ministry also complained to the Chilean ambassador in Lima on Wednesday, alleging that President Gabriel Boric spoke in a “disrespectful manner” about Boluarte on Tuesday during the same summit in Buenos Aires.

The Foreign Ministry notified the Chilean diplomat that the “course chosen by the constitutional government of President Boluarte is the advancement of general elections so that Peruvians decide, without interference and in peace, the destiny of Peru.”

Boric had criticized that people who go out to demonstrate in Peru “end up shot by whoever should defend them.”

Evo, not pleasant

This same Thursday, the plenary session of the Peruvian Congress approved with 74 votes in favor declaring former Bolivian President Evo Morales persona non grata and expressing its rejection of the public expressions made by the former president.

“Declare Mr. Evo Morales Auma persona non grata in the national territory, for his constant incitements in national politics, the same ones that seek to unbalance the internal order of the country, especially the southern area of ​​Peru,” the initiative states. (YO)