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Mexico’s Chargé d’Affaires Leaves Peru as Rift Over Betssy Chávez Escalates

Peru has refused a safe-conduct for Betssy Chávez pending OAS consultations on asylum rules.

Overview

  • Migraciones confirmed that Karla Tatiana Ornelas Loera completed exit formalities and departed Peru overnight on November 8–9 under a government order.
  • Peru severed diplomatic relations on November 3 after Mexico granted diplomatic asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who remains inside Mexico’s embassy in Lima.
  • With Ornelas’s departure, Mexico’s embassy in Lima has suspended diplomatic functions, reflecting the freeze in bilateral ties.
  • Mexico has defended the asylum as a lawful humanitarian measure; President Claudia Sheinbaum called Peru’s break in relations disproportionate, and Peru’s Congress declared her persona non grata.
  • Peru’s Foreign Ministry has withheld a salvoconducto for Chávez and is consulting OAS members while proposing revisions to the 1954 Caracas Convention on diplomatic asylum.