Peru withdrew its ambassador to Honduras, Jorge Raffo, due to “unacceptable interference” in the country’s internal affairs by Xiomara Castro’s government, the South American nation’s foreign ministry reported on Thursday.
The measure is a new episode in the confrontation between the executive of Dina Boluarte and those of several countries governed by leftist leaders in the region, such as Mexico, Colombia or Bolivia.
“As a consequence of the position adopted by Honduras, bilateral relations with that country will be maintained, indefinitely, at the level of business managers,” clarified however, the Foreign Ministry when announcing the measure on its Twitter account.
For his part, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Honduras, Enrique Reina, also through social networks, assured that the Honduran government “is respectful of the self-determination of peoples and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States. “.
However, in his thread on Twitter, echoed by the Honduran Foreign Ministry, Reina considered that “the sovereign will of the people was violated” when deposed the former president Castilloafter this tried to dissolve Congressand described what happened as a “coup d’état”.
At the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Argentina this week, Honduran President Xiomara Castro already described the coming to power of Boluarte of a “coup d’état” and accused the “right” of the region of a “permanent aggression” against the towns.
“We condemn the coup in Peru and the aggression to which the Peruvian people are subjected, our solidarity with the legitimate president-elect, Pedro Castillo, and we demand his immediate release,” Castro said.
Boluarte took power in December after Congress removed Pedro Castillo, currently in prison for having tried to dissolve parliament. The president was his vice president but the groups that protest in the country demand that he call early elections.
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