López Obrador urges CELAC to sign a statement in favor of Castillo

The leftist president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has urged this Tuesday the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to pronounce itself in favor of the release of the former president of Peru Pedro Castillo, in prison after announcing the dissolution of the Andean Parliament to early December in an attempt to claim more power.

In his telematic intervention at the CELAC summit in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, López Obrador has called Castillo’s arrest “infamy”, for which he has encouraged the region as a whole to sign a statement in support of the former president and in which the end of the repression of the demonstrations in Peru is also demanded.

“We must not leave the brother people of Peru alone. It was an infamy what they did with Pedro Castillo and the way in which he is repressing the people. We must jointly sign a communiqué to demand that the repression cease, that dialogue be opened, that it be the people who decide in democracy, that is, in clean, free elections on the destiny of Peru,” the Mexican president asserted, according to the newspaper ‘El Universal’.

Thus, López Obrador has called for the end of “authoritarianism” in Peru and the release of Castillo who, he considers, is “unfairly imprisoned.”

The Aztec nation has emerged as a staunch defender of Castillo, and has even granted political asylum for his wife, Lilia Paredes, and her two children.

With information from LGI

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