Overview
- Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela announced the rupture after confirming the former prime minister is sheltered in the Mexican Embassy residence in Lima with diplomatic asylum.
- Mexico's Foreign Ministry rejected the decision as excessive and said the asylum was granted in full compliance with international law, citing the 1954 Caracas Convention and stating it is not an unfriendly act.
- Peru labeled the move an unfriendly act and pointed to repeated interventions by Mexico's current and former presidents in Peru's internal affairs as grounds for severing ties.
- Peru said consular services will continue even as embassies wind down operations, and it ordered the Mexican mission's chargé d’affaires, Karla Ornela, to leave the country within a peremptory deadline.
- Betssy Chávez is on trial for alleged rebellion and conspiracy tied to December 2022 events, remains under court restrictions, and faces a prosecution request for roughly 25–26 years in prison.