America goes from shock to shock. The latter, previously announced by the Justice Department’s investigations against Peruvian President, Pedro Castillo, and his cabinet, has come to fruition in recent days, after weeks of alleged investigations, accusing him of being the leader of an alleged criminal organization that sells contracts public for illicit profits. The complaint is a torpedo to the waterline of the precarious balance the country has been in since Castillo won the 2021 election and adds to the previous five from which he emerged unscathed. Since then, the political crisis in the country has been a constant. Peru has experienced years of political instability in recent decades, caused by a high turnover of presidents, all accused of corruption (Alan García, Alberto Fujimori, Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski), carrying prison sentences, escape from the country, suicides etc.
This is the political normality of the Andean country. Normality was accentuated after the short-lived and volatile self-coup that Castillo staged last Wednesday, three hours before debate on his possible resignation in Congress began. Failed maneuver that ended with his arrest and transfer to the Lima prison of Barbadillo where Alberto Fujimori is located, the former president who also staged a self-coup in 1992 and who succeeded in this case thanks to the support of civilians and the military . After his decision to dissolve the Peruvian Congress, a few hours served to end his adventure of establishing an emergency national government that had been a failure from the start. A foolish and insane plan ends with the possibility of being sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison and with the reassertion of a Congress that has a much worse reputation than him.
President Castillo and his Perú Libre party have been a disappointment to the Peruvians after two hundred years of conservative governments, because one year after his triumph he has not only kept his promises (state reform, second agrarian reform, health, poverty and modification) of the neoliberal order ) but ended up with ultra-cons and conspirators, after newfound and educated politicians abandoned their project when they discovered the swings and inconsistencies. Succession of presidential cabinets (five in particular) and more than a hundred ministers confirm this.
But let’s not forget the influence and, on many occasions, the ploys of the right and constant pressure from the Attorney General’s Office, the press, and Congress itself. The media rallied against Castillo long before he assumed the presidency, leading to constant harassment and persecution of him and his family. For example, with regard to the above-mentioned Congress, it should be noted that in the span of a year there have been about a dozen replacement attempts, opening innumerable commissions of inquiry into indictments of corruption cases with surprising complacency, and entering several times until the motion of censure which he always assumed and on this occasion would have done so despite the ‘evidence’ against him, his retinue and some of his former ministers.
Castillo has sunk for three hours and a “few more” will last the presidency of Dina Boluarte, politically very weak and under the merciless and combined pressure of parliamentary Caesarism and the country’s poor and desperate masses.
Source: La Verdad
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