Mexico suspends the Pacific Alliance summit due to the absence of Pedro Castillo, forced by the Peruvian Congress

MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed on Tuesday the suspension of the Pacific Alliance summit --scheduled for this week in Mexico City-- due to the absence of his Peruvian counterpart, Pedro Castillo, after that the Andean Parliament denied him permission to travel.

"The meeting of the Pacific Alliance was suspended because the president of Peru was not allowed to attend, and he is responsible for the presidency. He was going to receive it here and we are exploring the possibility of holding an act in Peru or making a decision consulting the members of the Pacific Alliance," said López Obrador.

In fact, the Mexican president has not ruled out the possibility of going to Lima to present Castillo with the Presidency of the Pacific Alliance, a regional organization also formed by Chile and Colombia, and to which other Latin American countries such as Ecuador aspire to join. or Costa Rica; and Oceania, such as Australia, New Zealand or South Korea, among others.

López Obrador has indicated that, although the summit has been suspended, the presidents of Chile, Ecuador and Colombia, Gabriel Boric, Guillermo Lasso and Gustavo Petro, respectively, will travel to Mexico City, where they will hold bilateral meetings with each of them. includes the Mexican newspaper 'El Universal'.

The cancellation of the summit has also caused the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his Argentine counterpart, Alberto Fernández, to suspend their visit to Mexico, although it is true that López Obrador has assured that "later" both will visit the country because they are "good friends".

The Peruvian Congress denied last Friday President Castillo's request to leave the country to travel to Mexico for the Pacific Alliance summit, although he was authorized to travel to Chile.