Overview
- The national police doubled and then tripled patrols outside Mexico’s embassy in Lima on December 25 to prevent any holiday escape attempt, according to commander general Óscar Arriola.
- Authorities positioned agents around all access points and ruled out entering the diplomatic premises, reinforcing containment instead of any breach.
- Chávez remains an asylee since early November after receiving 11 years, 5 months, and 15 days for conspiracy related to the December 2022 crisis, with an arrest order that cannot be executed inside the embassy.
- Peru has not issued the safe-conduct Mexico requested, and the dispute led Lima to cut diplomatic ties with Mexico in November.
- As security tightened, Chávez publicly resigned from Todo con el Pueblo, while her mother, Herminia Chino, joined Podemos Perú as a Senate candidate alongside lawyer Raúl Noblecilla and ex–Perú Libre figures such as Guido Bellido and Edgar Tello.