Summit of the Pacific Alliance is suspended due to the absence of President Pedro Castillo

The president of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed this Tuesday, November 22, that the Pacific Alliance summit scheduled for this Friday in the country is suspended due to the refusal of the Congress of Peru to allow the attendance of the president Pedro Castillo.

“The meeting of the Pacific Alliance was suspended because the president of Peru was not allowed to attend and he is the presidency (of the organization), he was going to receive it here, and we are exploring the possibility of holding an act in Peru,” he declared. López Obrador in his daily press conference.

Despite the suspension of the summit, the Mexican confirmed the visit of the other member presidents, the Chilean Gabriel Boric, and the Colombian Gustavo Petro, as well as the Ecuadorian ruler, Guillermo Lasso, who seeks to join the trade bloc.

“Tomorrow afternoon, President Boric will also be with us, and I can tell you that he is coming in a bilateral meeting, President Lasso, President Petro, they are the ones who will be with us,” López Obrador explained.

The president of Mexico had already advanced on Monday the possibility of suspending the meeting of the Pacific Alliance, a commercial bloc made up of his country, Chile, Colombia and Peru due to the absence of Castillo, who faces a constitutional complaint for criminal organization, influence peddling and collusion.

López Obrador, who has previously supported Castillo and has denounced that there is “racism” behind the attempts of the Peruvian Congress to remove him, commented that he will consult with the other partners of the alliance about going to Peru.

“We are working on it, it is likely that we will be able to go to the meeting there in December, in the first week of December, but now that they are coming Gustavo Petro and that President (Gabriel) Boric is coming, who are members of the Pacific Alliance, we are going to discuss this issue,” he said.

The Pacific Alliance, formally constituted 10 years ago and which seeks to strengthen trade integration, boasts of being “the eighth economic power and the eighth exporting power worldwide”, representing 41% of Latin America’s gross domestic product (GDP). and attract 38% of foreign direct investment.

The summit in Mexico had raised expectations for being the first time in which the four presidents that make up the bloc are from the left.

Source-larepublica.pe