Human Rights Watch has questioned whether Argentina has victimized Pedro Castillo after the coup in Peru

The director of the Division of the Americas in Human Rights WatchJuanita Goebertus, questioned the position of the Argentine government against Pedro Castillo’s coup in Peru, after the administration of Alberto Fernández joined a joint communiqué with his peers Andrés Manuel López (Mexico), Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Luis Arce (Bolivia), in which they expressed their “deep concern about the removal and detention” of the now former president.

“Regrettable that the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico respond to the grave crisis in Peru by victimizing Castillowho sought to dissolve Congress during the corruption investigation,” said the director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division.

Through a post on her social Twitter account, Juanita Goebertus underlined: “Latin America must support Peru by defending the rule of law.”

In the joint statement, the four countries made “an appeal to all the actors involved in the previous process to give priority to the will of the citizens who have expressed themselves at the pollsFurthermore, they argued that this was “the way to interpret” the scope and meanings of the notion of democracy contained in the Inter-American System of Human Rights.

In this way, the National Executive took a striking diplomatic breakthrough, given that in the hours following the coup, the Argentine Foreign Ministry had expressed its “deep concern” about the political situation and had asked that “democratic institutions be protected”.

“Argentina regrets and expresses its deep concern for the political crisis that its sister Republic of Peru is going through, and calls on all political and social actors to protect democratic institutionsRule of law and constitutional order,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on December 7.

Two days after the coup attempted by Castillo, the president, Dina Bolartehad celebrated the communication of the president of Argentina on social networks: “I appreciate the appeal of the president of the sister Republic of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, in which he expressed his support, support and collaboration in the field of strengthening our democracy, relations agreements bilateral and regional policies for the development of South America”.

Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer who was Peru’s vice president during Pedro Castillo’s term, took office on Wednesday following the resignation of the now former president, who had announced the dissolution of Congress hours earlier.