A week after Pedro Castillo was sacked, everything in Peru seems to be in political uncertainty: The provisional government was forced to declare state of emergency across the country for 30 days to face protests it has already left seven dead and dozens injured. It was decided to give society a “strong and authoritarian” response. Beyond the measure, no one dared to guarantee the measure’s effectiveness this Wednesday. It is unknown whether the former president will remain in prison and the date of the next president. electionsinterim president, Dina BoluarteSuggested for April 2024. Its status is also uncertain.
Demonstrations and barricades For Castillo’s freedom, new elections, and the dissolution of Congress, where the rural teacher wants to shut down and lawmakers win it, affect 13 of the country’s 24 districts. The military intervened to restore the flow of trade and transport. The famine is already affecting several cities. Office of the Ombudsman, a Government humanitarian corridor for people stranded across the region. “Castillo better call for peace and stop misinforming people.” He said in an editorial for the newspaper “La República”, “The overflow of protests requires the Government’s immediate attention.”
“Good Peruvians, sisters and brothers, men and women must stay together and walk within the legal framework and the Constitution,” Boluarte asked, trying to keep the balance in a scene marked by dizziness and uncertainty. instability. The interim president even tends to hold elections in December 2023. “It is the institutions that should verify all the times of this early election that I suggested earlier,” he added. The ball fell on the field reluctantly to be renewed from the ballot box through the Parliament and the Election Board.
Castle’s status
Meanwhile, Castillo does not stop holding demonstrations in front of the Special Operations Directorate (Diroes) to demand his release. In a new letter addressed to this institution, he assured: “Track down anger, humiliation, and mistreatment. Today they are pushing my freedom again with 18 months in detention. I ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to mediate for the rights of me and my Peruvian brothers who demand justice.”
Justice suspended the hearing this Wednesday, which should decide on the precautionary detention of Castillo and former Prime Minister Anibal Torres on charges of rioting, conspiracy, abuse of power and serious disturbance of the public peace. The session will continue on Thursday. For now, Castillo’s lawyer, Ronald Atencio, has stepped down to defend him.
“I was unjustly and arbitrarily detained. I am not for a thief, a rapist, a corrupt or a bandit. But I want to call out to the country to say that I am grateful to you for your trust, effort, struggle and identification. I will never resign and I will not abandon this popular cause. “I would like to call on the Armed Forces and the National Police to lay down their arms and stop killing these people who are thirsty for justice,” Castillo said in his previous letter.I have never committed a conspiracy crime nor rebellion,” he added.
Warning
Lima newspaper El Comercio considered it “predictable” that Castillo’s “aides” would be “willing to defend him in his forward flight by destroying democracy and the rule of law”. What is surprising, he says, “is to see the number of politicians, governments, and distracted journalists of one kind or another in the region spreading the absurd thesis that the coup leader was in fact the victim of the coup that all Peruvians witnessed on national television seven.” days ago… As if stupidity started after the coup”. “El Comercio” referred to the concerns expressed by Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia over the political and judicial drift of Castillo’s impeachment. “A request that will go down in history as one of the most cynical and shameful events in Latin American politics.”