The diplomatic authorities of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru met in Santiago de Chile in June 2023 to establish the interim presidency of the Pacific Alliance@Minrel_Chile (RR SS)
Chile this Wednesday received the temporary presidency of the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American diplomatic and commercial integration organization uniting four countries in the region: Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile. Santiago will take command of the company for a month, easing doubts raised after high tensions between Mexico, which refused to transfer control to Lima for political reasons.
According to an agreement between the member states of the alliance, the Mexican foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, handed over the command to her Chilean counterpart, Alberto van Klaveren. Renzo Villa Prado, Peru’s chief executive in Chile, also attended the ceremony, held this morning at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in downtown Santiago. This very country will take over the presidency in another month, when the extraordinary Chilean period will come to an end.
“Chile has done its good offices with friendly countries, with Mexico and also with Peru, temporarily taking over the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance,” said Minister Van Klaveren, who stressed that his country had agreed to the agreement “in spirit”. Fraternity with the countries and also with the consent of all members of the alliance.”
The Chilean Foreign Minister stated: “We have always recognized Peru’s right to exercise the pro tempore presidency and in this sense we have decided to act as mediators to resolve this situation.” He also emphasized the Mexicans’ willingness to complete the transfer , declaring that “the four countries remain committed to the future of the alliance”. “We actually believe that we can push the project further to achieve the free movement of goods, services, capital and also people,” said President Gabriel Boric’s foreign minister.
The handover of interim command to Chile marks the conclusion of a complex episode between Mexico and Peru, countries that have maintained a distant relationship since former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo’s failed coup attempt. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has expressed his opposition to the provisional government of Lima, led by Dina Boluarte, in a conflict that has rocked the multilateral organization.
Lima was due to assume the presidency of the Pacific Alliance in late 2022 or early 2023, but Mexican diplomacy did not go through with that process. “I don’t want to give up a government that I think is fake. “I don’t want to legitimize a coup,” said López Obrador.
From the outset, the Mexican government’s defense focused on the fact that Castillo had been the victim of harassment during his tenure and that his dismissal was in the interests of the Andean country’s economic and political elites. “It was a coup by conservatism, the top politicians who, like the conservatives in Mexico, are classist, racist and very corrupt,” said the North American nation’s president, who months ago offered his support to the Castillo government, he said, “conservatives Fury”.
López Obrador’s support for the ousted former President of Peru was expressed in an offer of asylum for him and his family. The action first came to former Peruvian first lady Lidia Paredes because Castillo was arrested after his failed political manoeuvre.
The Boluarte government has rejected the Mexican government’s position and has taken various measures such as: B. the expulsion of the Mexican Ambassador to Peru, Pablo Monroy; to finally withdraw his counterpart in Mexico, Manuel Talavera Espina, thereby reducing relations between the two nations to business executives. Peru’s Congress approved a motion to express its anger at the “continuous and unacceptable interference in internal affairs” by López Obrador and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who have expressed their views on the political crisis sweeping the South American country .