Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo affirmed on Tuesday that he is "unfairly and arbitrarily detained" and has asked his country's security forces to "lay down their arms and stop killing this people thirsty for justice."
He has requested it during a hearing in which the Supreme Court reviews the appeal against the preliminary arrest that was issued against him last Wednesday.
The protest demonstrations that broke out this Sunday against President Dina Boluarte and the Peruvian Congress reached their maximum level of violence this Monday with seven dead, a hundred police officers injured and the attack on two television channels in Lima.
The Ombudsman, Eliana Revollar, confirmed that the number of people who have lost their lives in just over 24 hours in clashes between the police and protesters calling for Boluarte's resignation and the closure of Congress, which dismissed the president, has risen to seven. former president Pedro Castillo after announcing a self-coup.
"There have been two very unfortunate days with a balance of seven people dead (...) two of them minors and all from firearm projectiles," he specified to the Epicentro TV channel.
For his part, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has rejected this Tuesday the accusations of "interference" in the current Government of Peru, but has asked to recognize the presidency of Pedro Castillo by arguing that he won the last elections.
"It is not interference, being there conducting nothing, our ambassador is doing his diplomatic work and it is Foreign Relations that is in charge of carrying out this process," he declared at his daily press conference.
López Obrador has responded to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry, which last Friday summoned the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, to convey his rejection of the "expressions of the Mexican authorities" that "constitute interference in the internal affairs" of the Andean country .
