Overview

• Claudia Sheinbaum met at Mexico City’s Palacio Nacional with Guido Croxatto, the Argentine lawyer for former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo.
• Sheinbaum publicly urged the United Nations to act decisively on human rights in Castillo’s case and voiced solidarity with his family.
• Mexico’s president said her government will keep an active posture defending leaders it views as ideologically persecuted, invoking the country’s asylum tradition.
• Castillo was removed by Peru’s Congress in December 2022 and remains detained as he faces trial on charges related to an attempted self-coup, with prosecutors seeking decades in prison and major civil reparations.
• Peru’s Foreign Ministry condemned Sheinbaum’s stance as ideologized, rejected the portrayal of Castillo as a political victim, and cited principles of sovereignty and non-intervention.