Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is barred from Peru after her authorities granted asylum to Peruvian ex-premier.
Printed On 7 Nov 2025
Peru has declared Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a “persona non grata” who’s unable to enter the nation, days after severing ties with Mexico amid an escalating diplomatic dispute.
Peru’s Congress voted 63 to 34 on Thursday in favour of symbolically barring Sheinbaum from the nation after her authorities granted asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez, after she fled to the Mexican embassy in Peru’s capital Lima.
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The designation of “persona non grata” is usually reserved for international diplomats and compels them to go away a bunch nation, and is seen as a rebuke to their authorities.
President of Peru’s Congress Fernando Rospigliosi stated the transfer was a present of help for the federal government and its resolution to interrupt off relations with Mexico, in keeping with Mexico’s El Pais newspaper.
Throughout a debate on Thursday, Ernesto Bustamante, an MP who sits on Peru’s Congressional Overseas Relations Committee, additionally accused Sheinbaum of getting ties to drug traffickers.
“We can not enable somebody like that, who’s in cahoots with drug traffickers and who distracts her individuals from the actual issues they need to be addressing, to become involved in Peruvian affairs,” Bustamante stated, in keeping with El Pais.
Chavez, who’s on trial for her participation in an alleged 2022 coup try, earlier this week fled to the Mexican embassy in Lima, the place she was granted political asylum.
Peru’s Overseas Minister Hugo de Zela known as the choice by Mexico Metropolis an “unfriendly act” that “interfered within the inside affairs of Peru”.
Mexico’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs has maintained that it was performing in accordance with worldwide legislation, and the transfer in “no approach constitutes an intervention in Peru’s inside affairs”.
Lima has but to supply secure passage for Chavez to go away the embassy and journey to Mexico.
Chavez, a former tradition minister, briefly served as prime minister to President Pedro Castillo from late November to December 2022.
Expenses in opposition to the previous minister stem from an try by President Castillo in December 2022 to dissolve the Peruvian Congress earlier than he was rapidly impeached and arrested.
Chavez, who faces as much as 25 years in jail if discovered responsible, has denied involvement within the scheme. She was detained from June 2023 till September of this 12 months, after which launched on bail whereas going through trial.
