Mexico seeks to restore ties with Peru after Fujimori election victory
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that her government intends to restore diplomatic relations with Peru following the election victory of President-elect Keiko Fujimori.
Speaking during her morning press conference in Mexico City, Sheinbaum welcomed Fujimori's expressed desire to renew ties between the two countries.
"Yes, we do intend to restore the relationship with Peru. We did not break off that relationship; they did, they decided to. It is good that the president-elect today wishes... to restore the relationship," Sheinbaum said.
She added that she had instructed Mexico's foreign minister to begin discussions with Peru's incoming administration.
"Given her statements, I asked the foreign minister to establish communication with the new team that is going to govern in order to look at the specifics of restoring that relationship," she said.
Peru cut diplomatic relations with Mexico in November 2025 after the Mexican government granted political asylum to former Peruvian prime minister Betssy Chavez.
Chavez and former president Pedro Castillo were later sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison over Castillo's failed attempt to dissolve Congress and govern by decree in December 2022. Castillo is serving his sentence at the Barbadillo prison complex inside a police base in Lima.
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