Latin America The Prosecutor's Office opens an investigation against Pedro Castillo for alleged influence peddling
Six months of presidency, three different governments.
Pedro Castillo searched in record time for a new prime minister, after the resignation on Monday of the moderate
Mirtha Vásquez
, who was not able to survive in the turbulent waters of the Cajamarca teacher's administration.
Less than 24 hours to replace the protagonist of the chronicle of an announced resignation
"due to the impossibility of reaching consensus for the benefit of the country"
, as Vásquez herself explained in her farewell letter. The human rights activist, who arrived backed by her moderation to replace the radical leftist
Guido Bellido
, is the main victim of the president's political errors, lost in his own labyrinth.
As if he were the Pontius Pilates of the Andes, Castillo did not intervene in the dispute between the Minister of the Interior,
Avelino Guillén
, and Commander
Javier Gallardo
, of the National Police, which forced the resignation of one of his most prestigious ministers. Gillén had the support of Vásquez, which in the end has turned the inaction of the former presidential standard-bearer of the radical Free Peru (PL) into the trigger for the domino effect that has swept away his entire government.
"We have reached a critical moment
," warned Vásquez, who related the crisis in the Ministry of the Interior to "a structural problem of corruption."
The former premier also warned the country about the
"circle of advisers to the president"
, even describing how one of them kept her resignation letter for 15 minutes.
The "basement" of Pizarro's Presidential House pulls the strings of the country in total darkness.
During the fight between Guillén and Commander Gallardo, not only were promotions and the operation of the police in key places, such as Lima, at stake;
also the investigations that persecute Gallardo after the meetings he had with the president and with a former official,
accused of profiting during the pandemic
.
The same clouds stalk Rubén Pacheco, the president's former secretary, or Castillo's own nephew, who has now been found to have falsified
a Covid test so as not to testify
.
The resounding departure of former prosecutor Guillén also certifies the chaos and disorder that reigns in the Presidency.
Castillo himself already confessed to CNN:
"I was never trained as a politician, I was never trained to be president
. "
Something that almost all of Peru already suspected.
The first interviews that Castillo granted after almost half a year in silence revealed an "
improvised, roguish and exasperating
politician. Evasive when asked questions, without plausible alibis. His ideology is populism but in a rickety version," summarized analyst Gonzalo Banda.
According to the latest survey, 63% of Peruvians do not believe in their president.
"Not much is expected from the president
. He was asked many times to give explanations, but now, upon verifying his level, he should be invited to remain silent until 2026, if he continues in office by then," summarized the writer Renato Cisneros.
Determined to agree with his detractors, in that same interview with CNN, Castillo also slipped by opening the possibility for Bolivia to regain access to the sea, for which he had to apologize.
The Congress summoned Foreign Minister
Óscar Maúrtua
to give explanations on the matter in the next few hours.
"Castillo has bad advisers, but that is not the problem.
The problem is Pedro Castillo and the abandonment of his exchange offer and his lack of a plan
. The best adviser does not solve this," said analyst Juan de la Puente.
Despite his distance from Castillo, the failure of the first leftist cabinet and the fragmentation of his parliamentary group,
Vladimir Cerrón,
leader of PL and ally of the continental dictatorships, caresses the idea that one of his own will regain the head of government.
Even his brother
Waldemar Cerrón
, head of the parliamentary group, announced on Twitter that he would be the one appointed to replace Vásquez, although he later deleted the tweet and hid behind the fact that it was hacked.
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