The provisional president, Dina Boluarte, was authorized by Congress to attend the enthronement of Pope Leo XIV, whom the Peruvian government considers a citizen more of this country where she did a pastoral work for several decades. Boluarte, cUya popularity does not exceed five pointS, according to the latest surveys, needs to be entrusted to heaven although for more earthly reasons. His week was closed with a new constitutional complaint, the third in just two days, for the alleged crime of illegal enrichment aggravated during her management as Minister of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis) and while he was in charge of the Executive his dismissed predecessor, the left -wing rural teacher Pedro Castillo.
The interim president since the end of 2022 has been accused in turn by the violence exercised by police forces During the repression derived from the fall of Castillo, the first months of 2023. The Prosecutor’s Office has also denied it to Congress for omitting information in its affidavits of goods and income between 2021 and 2023, including jewels valued 162,250 dollars and two Rolex watches that have an estimated price of $ 44,465. The Constitutional Court has the key authorizing the investigation of the main executive authority. The constitutional accusation for repressive facts also reaches Pedro Angulo, former president of the Council of Ministers; Alberto Otárola, former Minister of Defense and former Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet; César Cervantes, Víctor Rojas and Vicente Romero, former interior ministers; and Jorge Chávez, former defense.
The Public Ministry considered that Boluarte must be charged due to “excessive” and “disproportion” of force State against 75 of the 400 protesters who were injured in the regions of Apurimac, Ayacucho, Ucayali, Cusco and Puno, as well as in Lima. About 50 people also died under the same circumstances. The action of the Police and the Army was at the time severely criticized by Amnesty International and the Inter -American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
Order to the Pope
The relatives of the victims of that police repression have sent a message to Robert Prevost. “The indifference of the State hurts deeply. Therefore, We ask you, Holy Father, who intercede for justice for us. Now more than ever we need his help, because the decisions of President Dina Boluarte and the laws that are approved in Congress directly affect us and do not guarantee that these facts are not repeated. “The letter denounces in turn that the government has fined the human rights organizations that defend them. Prevost, then Bishop in Peru, was critical of the actions of the State against protesters. The Archbishop of Huancayo, Pedro Barreto, recalled in this regard that The brand new potato “knows very well about innocent deaths during protests.”
Political weakness
The management of Boluarte was a permanent act of survival. If he was ever part of a left -wing game, Peru Libre, he had no qualms about dazzling to the right to stay in the Pizarro Palace. The Magna Carta points out that a acting head of state can only be accused of betrayal of the country, prevent elections or dissolve Congress, something that Castillo tried in December 2022. Although the fate of the provisional president is in the hands of the Constitutional Court, but Analysts do not hesitate that the matter is political. The decision that complaints are filed is not exclusively judicial.
Boluarte Gobierna Sin Sostén Parliamentarior in a country where Congress practices the art of dismissing leaders. Not only Castillo was ceased but his predecessor, Martín Vizcarra, who exercised the provisional presidency as of 2018, when Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned to avoid being thrown out of Parliament. The president has not found another alternative to negotiate with Keiko Fujimorithe leader of the Popular Force, who last April received as a gift the cancellation of the trial for corruption and money laundering that was followed since 2024. It was the Constitutional Court that guaranteed the impunity of the daughter of the former autocrat, Alberto Fujimori. The same judicial instance that at the time endorsed the controversial pardon of the man who served a sentence to life imprisonment for his responsibility in violations of human rights perpetrated during his first presidency, at the beginning of the nineties. Keiko, as he is known, has managed to increase his dominance over the interim government. Boluarte chose as his prime minister Eduardo Arana, a fujimorist of pure strain, who was in turn splashed by a sound case of corruption, white necks, and is in turn related the former fugitive exjuez supreme César Hinostroza and the former Walter Ríos, condemned by illegal acts. The previous Premier, Gustavo Adrianzén, had to leave office to avoid the censorship of Congress for its difficulty in reducing the crime wave.
Fragility is the rule of Peruvian presidents since the beginning of the century. Alejandro Toledo is detained for corruption. Ollanta Humala is also imprisoned for a similar case of illegal campaign financing. Alan García, the man who ruled among them, committed suicide in April 2019 before the police took him detained for an related fact. Boluarte, analysts point out, has done true miracles to not have the same destination as their predecessors. The legislature has been vital in its support.
“It is evident that The presence of the current president before the highest authority of the Catholic Church constitutes a nonsenseor, “said the Lima newspaper ´La República` in its editorial.” It is an open secret that this trip was possible thanks to a dark negotiation between the Executive and the Legislative, both responsible for the serious institutional vulnerability that we suffer today. These are the true credentials with which, ingeniously, Boluarte will come to meet the Pope. Credentials that no infamous vote of Congress can erase from the historical memory of the country. “
