Overview
- President José Jerí said he would authorize entry into Mexico’s embassy in Lima to detain former prime minister Betssy Chávez.
- Chávez remains inside the Mexican embassy under granted asylum as Peru has severed relations, expelled Mexican diplomats, and Mexico has pulled its personnel.
- A Peruvian judge ordered five months of preventive detention for Chávez and issued national and international arrest warrants transmitted to police and Interpol.
- Former foreign minister Eduardo Ferrero Costa warned that any forced entry would violate the Vienna Convention’s guarantee of diplomatic inviolability.
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he would withdraw Colombia’s mission if the embassy is attacked, a warning sharpened by Ecuador’s 2024 raid on Mexico’s embassy now before the ICJ.