Congressmen, relatives and even ambassadors have paraded through his cell and even snapped selfies with the former coup president.
Protests are intensifying in Peru, shortages from the roadblocks are starting to take effect, the government is applying a state of emergency as it studies to bring elections forward to December 2023, and meanwhile former president Pedro Castillo has been taking selfies in his cell with the hundred people who visited him in prison after his frustrated coup.
The reality of the country has degenerated into a surrealism that its president, Dina Boluarte, fears will be colored by mourning. “Peru cannot overflow with blood. We already went through that experience in the 1980s and 1990s, and we don’t want to return to that painful story that marked our lives,” he asked the mobilized this Thursday, many of them humble class workers and peasants. Boluarte reiterated his intention to start the procedures for holding the general elections in December 2023. Yet his intentions clash with those of thousands of mobilized people who are demanding that Pedro Castillo return to power.
The protests have already claimed eight lives. The protesters today seized five airports, blocked 46,000 travelers, and cut off nearly 190 sections of highways and highways. Hospitals called on the pickets to lift the blockades after a sick child died due to lack of medical care. Authorities have also warned that there will be a lack of oxygen in health centers as the country plunges into a fifth wave of coronavirus.
Castillo sat in his cell last night awaiting the judge’s decision on his immediate future: whether to stay in jail or release him until trial. While his lawyer says he is “isolated and humiliated”, it turned out today that the leftist leader has been visited by 116 people. Congressmen, regional governors and even the ambassadors of Mexico and Bolivia have gone to see him and even taken self-portraits with him, according to the newspaper ‘Perú21’. One of the most common is his former chief of staff, Betssy Chávez, who in turn faces charges of rebellion and conspiracy. Dozens of lawyers have approached the prison to offer to defend him.
Source: La Verdad
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