Overview
- President José Jerí said Peru will determine by Friday whether to grant a safe-conduct requested by Mexico for Betssy Chávez’s exit.
- Chávez remains inside the Mexican embassy in Lima after Peru severed diplomatic relations with Mexico over the asylum move.
- Former foreign minister Francisco Tudela argued that storming the embassy would violate the Vienna Convention and that refusing a safe-conduct could invite ICJ litigation under the 1954 Caracas convention.
- Policy voices diverged, with ex–foreign minister Javier González-Olaechea urging denial of the pass as Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela referenced the Haya de la Torre precedent to signal that prolonged refusal is a possible path.
- From the embassy, Chávez named Raúl Noblecilla as her sole attorney in her ongoing rebellion case linked to Pedro Castillo’s failed power grab.