The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, was declared persona non grata this Friday by the plenary session of the Peruvian Congress.
The decision is made after statements made by Petro last Friday, when he mentioned the extensive deployment of the PNP in the historic center of Lima the day before, in response to an anti-government demonstration.
"In Peru, (the police) march like Nazis, against their own people, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights," said the Colombian president.
After these affirmations, the Foreign Relations Commission of the Congress approved a proposal for a declaration to "defend the National Police", since "no one can offend it by saying that they are Nazi troops", according to its president, the conservative deputy María del Carmen Alva. , when presenting the approach to the plenary.
Specifically, Parliament expressed its rejection of Petro's "unacceptable" expressions, considering that these constitute an "offense" to the PNP, the Peruvian State and "all the Jewish people" by "trivializing the Holocaust."
For this reason, it declared it persona non grata and urged the interior and foreign ministries to take "the necessary steps" to guarantee that it "does not enter the national territory."
Last January, the Peruvian government expressed through a diplomatic letter its "strong protest against a new act of interference" by Petro in domestic politics, after he ruled on the eviction of protesters at a university in Lima.
The Peruvian Parliament already approved at the end of last year a motion rejecting "the constant acts of interference in internal affairs" by Petro and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Likewise, the government of Dina Boluarte had shown in December its "deep discomfort" over Petro's statements in support of former President Pedro Castillo, considering them an "unacceptable" interference in the country's internal affairs.
Peru previously declared the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy, and former Bolivian president Evo Morales persona non grata "for their constant incitement in national politics" which, always in the opinion of Parliament, seek to "unbalance the internal order of the country."
