Overview
- Judge Juan Carlos Checkley held a Nov. 13 virtual hearing on a request to replace Betssy Chávez’s restricted release with preventive detention for allegedly missing biometric check-ins and trial sessions.
- In the session, prosecutor William Rabanal asked for an arrest order and five months of preventive detention, while an earlier filing by supreme prosecutor Zoraida Ávalos sought an 18‑month term.
- Chávez remains inside Mexico’s embassy after Peru’s foreign minister confirmed she was granted asylum on Nov. 3, and authorities have kept the safe‑conduct decision on hold.
- The Constitutional Tribunal had previously annulled a prior preventive detention order for Chávez and imposed reporting rules that prosecutors now argue she breached.
- A separate clash deepened as a court-ordered, two‑day deadline to reinstate Delia Espinoza as prosecutor general went unexecuted, with interim chief Tomás Gálvez refusing to step aside without a Junta Nacional de Justicia notification and warning she risked arrest if she forced entry, while the JNJ cited her to a Nov. 17 disciplinary hearing.