AMLO supports OAS request to resolve crisis in Peru

The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, supported this Friday the request of the Organization of American States (OAS) to resolve the political crisis in Peru, where the president Pedro Castillo faces a third impeachment request in Congress.

“I think that President Castillo did well, he appealed to the OAS, and for the OAS to have given the opinion that he is being the victim of a smear campaign, that he is being harassed, well that is enough It is clear what is happening,” López Obrador declared in his daily press conference.

The Mexican president referred to the request made on Thursday by the OAS High-Level Mission to convene a dialogue and initiate a political truce to overcome the governance crisis that Peru is going through, where the opposition in Congress seeks to remove Castillo.

López Obrador, who has previously been critical of the OAS and has argued that he does not have an opinion on internal affairs of the In other countries, he expressed his support for Castillo.

“Of course, we are respectful of the decisions of each country, but there are many attempts to ignore him as president. And, in effect, he has been in office for a year and a half (in government) and has been around three or four (impeachment attempts) and this time they are accusing him of not being in good mental health,” he said.

The Mexican ruler asked that “it be understood that he (Castillo) won democratically and that it helps a country a lot to maintain governability, political stability.”

He also recalled that he will travel to Lima on December to hold the summit of the Pacific Alliance together with the other leaders of this trade bloc: the Chilean Gabriel Boric and the Colombian Gustavo Petro, in addition to the Ecuadorian Guillermo Lasso, who seeks to join the organization.

Although the meeting with the presidents of Chile, Colombia and Peru was scheduled to take place last Friday in Mexico, which has the temporary presidency of the block, López Obrador suspended it due to the refusal of the Peruvian Congress to allow Castillo to attend.

“I now have the presidency of this Pacific Alliance and I am going to hand it over to the president of Peru because it belongs to him. Since they prohibited him from leaving, they agreed to go there and hand over the presidency to him,” he commented.

Since Castillo took office in July of last year, the country has been the scene of several marches for and against the president, who in fifteen months in office has raffled two failed impeachment attempts by the parliamentary opposition.