LIMA: A Peruvian court issued an international arrest warrant Friday for former prime minister Betssy Chavez, wanted for her alleged role in a 2022 coup attempt.
Chavez, who has taken refuge at the Mexican embassy in Lima, was prime minister under then-president Pedro Castillo. He was ousted in December 2022 for trying to dissolve Congress following a months-long standoff, in what has been categorized as an attempted coup d’etat.
Relations between Lima and Mexico deteriorated sharply over the ouster of Castillo, a former rural schoolteacher and trade unionist dubbed Peru’s “first poor president.”