2023-07-29 20:43:35
“A message without a horizon that only its allies applaud“said the Lima newspaper The Republic. “She had plenty of words and she lacked an agenda,” she assured, for her part, Trade. The interim president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, did not reap the applause she longed for when she gave her first speech on the occasion of the Independence Day, The last friday. This Saturday he led the usual military parades amid strong criticism.
Boluarte, who replaced the dismissed Pedro Castillo last December, when a wave of protests began against him that caused dozens of deaths, apologized to the relatives of the victims, civilians and soldiers, and called for “a reconciliation pact” with her “outstretched hand”, a gesture that, in the act, found her own refutation. The provisional president also asked the discredited Congress for greater power to toughen its security policy. Although she invoked the growing problem of crime, there was no lack of analysts who linked that request to a more repressive orientationagainst future mobilizations against them. “To face the serious challenge of crime, I present a project for the delegation of legislative powers to the Executive Power, for a period of 120 days, in order to approve the measures that Peru needs today to face, with greater harshness and efficiency, crime. delinquency and criminality”.
No support in the population
Castillo’s former vice president has not been able to get Congress to call early elections and expressed her willingness to remain in power until 2026, when the rural teacher’s term should end. His figure is rejected by more than 80% of Peruvians, only surpassed by ten points by that of the legislators. Nor does it have its own party structure or support in the legislature. “Several perfect storms are seen on the horizon“, envisioned the influential analyst, César Hildrebrant, on his own website. His forecast is based on the determination of “Castillo’s unpopular successor” to screw herself to the Executive at all costs.
Hence, his address to the country has raised so many objections. “This is not a management that begins and must outline its development strategy. It is a transitional and temporary regime, which began in 2021 and which was constitutionally in charge until new elections were called. The refusal of Congress and the Government itself to advance them has put us in this unresolved political crisis“, he pointed The Republic.
wrong diagnosis
“After the coup, the national situation quickly led to a serious social upheaval whose objective, now without a doubt, was to overthrow the new government and replace our democracy with a dictatorship,” Boluarte said. The December and January protests, reactivated with less intensity last week, seek the dissolution of Parliament and early elections. Also the resignation of the executive authority. “These data from reality were not present in the speech and are basic to understand what the Government is proposing. She was a fundamental part of the previous regime, to which he now attributes all the problems he has to face. The 49 deaths during the protests at the beginning of the year are the result of a dictatorship that could not be established and against a democracy that it represented, in the narrative of the president,” he added The Republic.
For Tradethe presidential message “It will be best remembered for its duration –it lasted for just over three hours– than for its content”. It was the longest intervention in memory on July 28, when a head of state renders accounts of his annual management.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) not only detected violence with strong viciousness from the police forces against the protesters but also a high rate of racism. Boluarte assured that the accusations against uniformed officers will not go unpunished, but the organizations defending human rights do not believe him, among other reasons, because the Armed Forces and the police are their main supporters. The main evidence that he will continue on the well-trodden path was found in his own speech on July 28. For the interim president, the protest never had a reason to exist. They were “attacks” against democracy that, at the same time, left a negative balance in economic matters.
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