Overview
- At a Nov. 13 hearing, prosecutor William Rabanal asked Judge Juan Carlos Checkley to issue an arrest order and five months of preventive detention for Betssy Chávez, with a decision still pending.
- Prosecutors argue Chávez skipped three biometric check-ins and four trial sessions; she remains inside Mexico’s embassy in Lima after her asylum was confirmed in early November and the government paused a safe-conduct.
- Chávez’s private lawyer, Raúl Noblecilla, resigned in court citing loss of contact due to her asylum status, with a public defender expected to assume her representation.
- The Ninth Constitutional Court ordered the Junta Nacional de Justicia to reinstate Delia Espinoza within 48 hours, but the directive has not been executed as interim chief Tomás Gálvez refuses to hand over the office without a JNJ resolution.
- Gálvez warned Espinoza could be detained for usurpation of functions if she entered without JNJ backing; she said she will not force entry, hopes to access the office on Friday, and is separately cited by the JNJ to testify on Nov. 17.