By Marco Aquino

LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s government will decide this week whether it should grant safe passage to Mexico to an opposition politician holed up at the Mexican embassy in Lima, the country’s foreign minister said, amid a tense standoff between the two countries.

Peru on Monday severed diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to Betssy Chavez, the last prime minister for Peru’s ousted and now jailed former President Pedro Castillo.

Peruvian Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela told Reuters that legal experts are urgently reviewing the “1954 Caracas Convention,” which Mexico invoked to justify the asylum.

“It’s an analysis we’ve asked to be done quickly, but with the necessary care to do it well,” said De Zela, who was tapped as foreign minister last month by Peru’s new Presid

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