“Peruvian President Disclaims Responsibility for Protest Deaths: Latest News and Updates”

2023-05-09 21:08:19

Caracas. – This Monday afternoon at the Government Palace, located in Lima, the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, received the high command of the Armed Forces, after disclaiming responsibility for the deaths that occurred in the anti-government protests, and emphasizing the need to “individualize” penal obligations on the troops.

Local media detailed that Boluarte met with Manuel Jesús Martín Gómez de la Torre Aranibar, head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces; David Guillermo Ojeda Parra, General Commander of the Peruvian Army; Alberto Alcala Luna, General Commander of the Navy; and Alfonso Javier Artadi Saletti, General Commander of the Air Force.

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After the disclosure of the report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that reveals violations in the handling of the demonstrations, Boluarte said: “I can be the supreme head of the Armed Forces, but I have no command, the protocols are decided by them “.

The statements to the press caused a stir in Peru, where they vehemently criticized the president.

For his part, this Tuesday the former head of the Cabinet of Advisors of the Ministry of the Interior, Luis Herrera, stated that Boluarte is poorly advised and even spoke of “an exhaustion of the cabinet’s cycle of action”, headed by the President of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otárola.

He added: “I think the statement is fatal, no world leader comes out to say that (…) fatal from the point of view of governance.”

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The specialist asserted that, instead of “evading responsibilities,” the head of state must “recover the principle of authority” and for that he recommended “changing the cabinet of ministers.”

He reiterated that “what a command can never say is that it does not exercise command, because the cornerstone of the exercise of command is its exercise. The cabinet has failed resoundingly.”

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