So far this year, four former presidents of Latin America of the cycle condemned a Home prison O LA LA jail: Brazilian Jair BolsonaroArgentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerthe Colombian Álvaro Uribe and the Peruvian Ollanta Humala. Are the last of a long list of Latin American exmandatarios that have had problems with the justice of their countries in democratic periods. In total, they have been investigated, processed or convicted over the last 35 years. The vast majority for cases of corruption. They head the list Peru y Ecuadorwith eight each.
Let’s focus on him Singular Peruvian case. Less than 20 kilometers from the Presidential Palace, located in the center of Lima, there is a prison named only for former state chiefs. In less two decades they have gone through this Criminal peculiar five exmandatarios of different political trends. He premiered it, after being sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Known in the Andean country as ‘El Chino’ For his Asian features, although he was of Japanese origin, the deceased Fujimori enjoyed privileges From minute one, which generated controversy. He had for him only several rooms, such as a small library, a meeting room, a painting workshop and even a garden.
The arrival of new tenants has forced to expand the facilities, No bars or cells and with Two small landscaped courtyards. A special treatment in a country where prison centers, seventy, and suffer a high degree of unhealthiness. In Barbadillo, they are currently condemned (20 years) and (15 years). He accompanies them, the school professor who came to the presidency of the country in 2022 and who is in preventive detention while his trial lasts, which began in March. Castillo is accused of rebellion and of abuse of power for trying to dissolve Congress.
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Toledo and Humala purge penalt bribe presidents y senior officials from ten Latin American countries to get concessions of Great Public Works.
An investigation of the United States Department of Justice estimated at about 800 million dollars the amount paid in bribes. The then head of the company, the great corruptor, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2016. The ‘Caso Oderbrecht’ It is considered the greatest corruption scandal in the history of Latin America.
Two other Peruvian ex -presidents were also related to the case. The twice president who committed suicide before being arrested at his home in Lima, and, in freedom waiting for trial.
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He Seventh Peruvian ex -president that he has had problems with justice is, that he was in pretrial detention in Barbadillo less than a month last summer. Now he is also waiting to be judged for alleged corruption. Vizcarra has opened where he recounts his stay in the penalty and the relationship he had with his prison companions. The list completes the provisional president of the country, investigated for bribery and for the death of protesters in the protests that were unleashed after Castillo’s dismissal.
He High number of Latin American presidents investigatedprosecuted or convicted would indicate that justice works and that those countries enjoy democratic quality. But it is not so. That the British magazine ‘The Economist’ elaborates every year, there are only two countries in the qualified group of ‘full democracy’, Uruguay y Costa Ricawhich occupy positions 15 and 18 respectively of a total of 167 of the world. Uruguay It is the only country in Latin America in which no president has been persecuted for justice in democratic periods.
The vast majority of other nations are well below. Perufor example, it occupies the 75th position. A sample of its political instability is that in the last seven years has had six presidents. One of them barely lasted five days. As the Mexican anthropologist Jorge Durand wrote, becoming president of Peru “is a high -risk race”
Returning to the beginning, two of the four Latin American presidents sentenced this year meet at the moment Home prison. , condemned to 27 years by tentative of coup d’etat After losing the last elections against Luiz Inazio Lula de Silva, and Cristina Fernández de, who purges 6 years of imprisonment and perpetual disqualification for public office for corruption. , who has fallen 12 years for bribery and procedural fraud, is released waiting for the appeal. Humalaan former army commander, was convicted with his wife, Nadine Heredia, but the former lady took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy of Lima in search of asylum.
