Instability Peru: four governments in just six months
Context Peru: "Critical moment" after the dismissal of the Prime Minister and the new government crisis
The eternal crisis in the Peruvian government is already processing the appointment of the
fourth prime minister and the fourth cabinet of Pedro Castillo
in only
six months and eight days
of mandate.
As if he were clinging to political vertigo, the professor from Cajamarca has opted on this occasion for a born survivor,
Aníbal Torres,
a 79-year-old lawyer, his countryman and
Minister of Justice
in the three governments of the current administration.
The veteran politician, recognized for his tricks, will be accompanied by a large part of the third cabinet, which could not be released due to the almost immediate fall of
Héctor Valer,
a controversial turncoat deputy.
Valer endured just three days of turmoil after the
reports of family violence by his wife, now deceased, and his daughter became known.
The one who has left the government is
Hernando Cevallos,
who as Minister of Health achieved national recognition in the fight against the pandemic.
Cevallos was in the pool of possible premieres until the last minute.
The biggest surprise of the cabinet swearing-in ceremony was not in the ministers, but in the president himself, who
for the first time decided to appear publicly without the white hat
of his land, which has characterized him so much.
"There is no qualitative leap with respect to the Valer cabinet. Aníbal Torres as premier makes more sense, but
in general there is no improvement.
Cevallos' departure is incomprehensible," summarized sociologist
Juan Luis Dammert.
The fatal attraction to failure has already pushed Castillo into his first appointment after taking office at the end of July.
The one chosen then as premier was
Guido Bellido,
a radical leftist from the hard core of
Peru Libre (PL),
known for his extreme positions and his homophobic and misogynistic statements.
He barely lasted a little over two months at the head of the government, yes, almost an eternity compared to Valer.
In order not to lose the habit,
Torres is also involved in several scandals
at the same time.
The last one, the resignation in the last hours of his deputy minister,
Gilmar Andía Zúñiga,
who left the government with a resounding slam of the door and after assuring that in his five years in different executives he had never witnessed "the institutional weakening that I am witness now" .
The accusations against Torres from his second in Justice are weighty: "Authoritarianism,
contempt for technical work and unjustified mistreatment of the professionals
who make up our teams have had a direct impact on the policies and actions of this institution."
Torres is also accused of
forcing the resignation of the person in charge of Prisons, Susana Silva,
because they say she refused to transfer the old dictator,
Alberto Fujimori, from the clinic where he was being held to a common prison.
On the other hand, the rumor in the political gossips of
Lima
is that Castillo wants to force the freedom of the military coup leader
Antauro Humala,
champion of a mixture of nationalist populism and ethnic socialism that evokes the Inca empire, baptized as
ethnocacerismo.
Torres was in charge of denying this accusation, but his words were not convincing.
Castillo has assembled his fourth cabinet against the clock while trying to explain to the country that the accusations of his main collaborators are not true.
Both the former Prime Minister
Mirtha Vásquez,
the only one who provided him with some stability, as well as the influential head of Economy,
Pedro Francke,
as well as other leaders have unequivocally criticized the "shadow government" of Castillo's powerful advisers, most of them from of his native land.
The Cajamarca
rasputines
do and undo as they please in the face of Castillo's manifest incapacity, who in addition to disorder and chaos
has surrounded himself with the shadows of corruption,
which led to the opening of an investigation by the
Prosecutor's Office.
Conforms to The Trust Project criteria
Know more
peter castle
América López Obrador, indifferent to the murders of journalists in Mexico
PoliticsCrisis in Ukraine: The Government reminds Podemos that they also renewed agreements with NATO and the EU in December
UkraineThe alleged 'man from Moscow' pointed to by the United Kingdom has been sanctioned in Russia for years
See links of interest
Last News
Translator
Work calendar 2022
how to
Fenerbahce Istanbul - Real Madrid