Daughter of former Peruvian president warns Colombia's Petro to keep socialism out of Peru

Conservative firebrand Keiko Fujimori asked the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, this Wednesday, "not to stick his red nose" into Peru's affairs, after the new leftist president commented on Pedro Castillo failed coup.

Fujimori is an elected representative and leader in Peru's People's Force party. She is also the daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. 

Her comments were in response to comments Petro made at a public event last Friday. 

"In Peru, [the National Police] march like Nazis, against their own people, breaking the American Convention on Human Rights," said the former Colombian guerrilla turned president said .

Petro alluded to a recent parade of Peruvian law enforcement, who were deployed in large numbers to "protect the institutions," according to the Interior Ministry, amid protests against the government of Dina Boluarte.

"After Mr. Petro's statements, I am going to ask him publicly not to put his red nose in Peru. Peru has defeated terrorism and we are not going to accept that foreign terrorism enters our country," Fujimori told the press outside of the Government Palace, alluding to "the crisis of international interference" that the country has experienced.

"I want to send my fraternal embrace to the Colombian people, but my total repudiation of the guerrilla Gustavo Petro," added the leader of the Fuerza Popular party.

Peruvian political leader Keiko Fujimori called Colombian President Gustavo Petro a "guerrilla" and asked him "not to stick his red nose in Peru."  https://t.co/CXyaotioAD pic.twitter.com/jqMplPnghB

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In making these statements, Fujimori joined the chorus of broad Peruvian political and media sectors that all rejected Petro's support of the imprisoned coup leader Pedro Castillo.

The Congressional Foreign Relations Commission also agreed on Tuesday that the Colombian president be declared persona non grata in Peru in a motion that rejects Petro's "unacceptable" declarations.

The motion said the statements constitute an "offense" to the Police, the Peruvian State and "all the Jewish people" by "trivializing the Holocaust."

Last January, the Peruvian government expressed through a diplomatic letter its "firm protest against a new act of interference" by Petro in internal political affairs, after he defended the coup attempt by former President Castillo.

At the end of last year, the Peruvian Parliament approved a parliamentary motion rejecting "the constant acts of interference in the internal affairs" of the country by Petro and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.