The Diplomat
Peru’s ambassador to Spain, Walter Gutiérrez Camacho, has resigned from his post for “personal considerations”, only a year after arriving in our country.
On Monday, Boluarte issued a communiqué addressed to the President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, in which he presented his “irrevocable resignation”. The reasons for my resignation,” he explains in his letter, “are due to personal considerations that make it unfeasible for me to continue serving as ambassador of the government.
Gutiérrez thanked Boluarte for the trust placed in him and said that it had been an honour to represent the Peruvian state and his country in Spain. He ends his letter by expressing “his most sincere wish” that Boluarte’s government will be able to achieve the state objectives it has set itself, as well as successfully completing the constitutional period of its term of office.
Walter Gutiérrez was appointed ambassador to Spain after the resignation of Oscar Maúrtua, who left the post in January 2023, after having been Castillo’s foreign minister at the beginning of his government, the same post he held during Alejandro Toledo’s administration between 2005 and 2006. He arrived in Madrid in April 2023, but was only able to present his credentials to the King on 12 January.
Gutiérrez, 65, was Peru’s Ombudsman from 2016, under the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, until 2021, when Pedro Castillo assumed the presidency of the country, where he remained until his dismissal in December 2022 due to a failed self-coup d’état.
