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Mexican Envoy Departs Peru as Lima Escalates Standoff Over Betssy Chávez Asylum

Peru turns to the OAS to tighten asylum rules after declining to issue a safe-conduct for Chávez.

Overview

  • Peru’s migration authority confirmed that Mexican chargé d’affaires Karla Tatiana Ornelas left the country on November 8 under a government order following the rupture of relations.
  • Diplomatic representation at Mexico’s embassy in Lima is suspended, and Betssy Chávez remains inside the mission without a safe-conduct to leave.
  • The Foreign Ministry has opened consultations with OAS members to propose changes to the 1954 Caracas Convention on diplomatic asylum.
  • Peruvian police increased their presence around the Mexican mission in San Isidro to secure the premises after the envoy’s departure.
  • Mexico defended granting asylum as a humanitarian tradition, Claudia Sheinbaum called Peru’s break disproportionate, and Peru’s Congress declared her persona non grata earlier in the week.