In Peru, almost no one is spared from the action of judges and prosecutors, who have already accused eight of the last nine presidents and imprisoned five of them.
The latest "victim" is
former governor Vladimir Cerrón
, sentenced today by the
Junín Anti-Corruption Court
to four years in active prison for
corruption
.
Cerrón,
leader of the Marxist-Leninist Perú Libre
(PL) party and a close ally of the Latin American dictatorships, is the main
supporter of the coup leader Pedro Castillo
, whom he imposed as his presidential candidate because he himself was disabled by another corruption case during his time as
Governor of Junín
, central region of the Andean country.
The sentence details how
Cerrón
and the consortium that was going to build an
airfield in Huancayo
, the capital of Junín, agreed to defraud the State, which has led to his conviction for collusion in the Wanka case.
"Civil reparation of 2,018,180 soles (
490,000 euros
) was also imposed on him, which they must pay in solidarity (together with the other convicts). The sentence handed down by Judge Guido Arroyo will be executed once consented or enforced," said the Peruvian Judiciary, which thus forces another court to confirm this decision before Cerrón enters jail.
Currently, the dictator Alberto Fujimori and the coup leader Pedro Castillo remain in prison, while the former presidents Alejandro Toledo awaits his extradition from the US,
Ollanta Humala
is tried for receiving money from Hugo Chávez and the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and different procedures are being followed against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski , Martin Vizcarra and Manuel Merino.
Even the current president, Dina Boluarte, is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office accused of genocide after the repression against the protesters who demand her resignation.
"Sentenced for trying to build an airport for Huancayo. Reparation of two million is imposed, labor and electoral disqualification and impediment to leave the country. I will appeal," Cerrón announced through his social networks.
The
disqualification will prevent Cerrón from running for public office
, including the presidency, despite the fact that the PL leader had entertained such a possibility in the face of an electoral advance that is now blocked by Congress and especially by his parliamentary group and by his satellites, which add up to 36 of 130 seats.
"My full solidarity with
Vladimir Cerrón
for being the victim of a shameless lawfare, where the judiciary is the servile instrument of the power groups. The truth will prevail and we will continue working to take the country beyond victory," reacted the PL congresswoman María Agüero, who, to give an example of how the truth is hidden in liberal democracies, accused George Bush of perpetrating the attack on the Twin Towers.
Lawfare, judicial war, is the usual excuse used by the leaders of the Patria Grande (revolutionaries, leftists and populists in the region) when they are cornered for corruption, from Brazilian President Lula da Silva to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández Kirchner, passing by the Ecuadorian Rafael Correa, triumphant in the regional elections of Ecuador held last Sunday.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
Peter Paul Kuczynski
Add
Ecuador
Four
Rafael Correa
Peru
Toledo
USA
Hugo Chavez
Justice