Whenever she was interviewed, Dina Boluarte protested that she was a woman of the left and for that reason she supported Pedro Castillo at the time until she took his position as vice president and joined in open complicity with the mourners in Peru today.
The closure of Congress, new elections, Castillo’s freedom and his resignation are the main demands of thousands of demonstrators who are protesting and facing official repression in most departments of the country.
Today the President assures that her only task is to hold the early elections for April 2024, she looks the other way when reminded that there are more than 50 deaths at the hands of the army and police to whom she entrusts her back a fascist prime minister mentality and gets carried away by a Congress that allows its leadership because of its submission to the right-wing majority.
In a full Democratic pose, Prime Minister Otárola expressed “outrage” at the comments of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López, who condemned the coup against Castillo and granted asylum to the family of the former president, who was never granted permission to govern by Congress, saying that he had no achievement had that could consolidate him in power.
The deaths due to official repression have forced unreliable prosecutors to launch cases against the President and her cabinet, and I don’t know if the outcome will be sacrificing Boluarte to cover the forms, depending on what the ousted Castillo decide to eliminate those who might overshadow the power of the right.
POLITICALLY DEAD
Dina Boluarte “is already politically dead” and will not be able to rule because she killed about 50 people in 33 days, says analyst Isaac Vigió.
“Of the 70 female presidents that exist or have existed in the world, Dina Boluarte is the most bloodthirsty. He has a record of about one murder every 16 or 17 hours. So he’s a person who doesn’t have a bank, doesn’t have a party, doesn’t have popular support and is committed to shooting all his opponents,” Vigió said.
For Vigió, all that remains for Boluarte is to resign, “convene a constituent assembly” and “release Professor Castillo” because it is unfair to see the President of the Republic, as constitutional President, being arrested by the police when he was still leader. This movement will not stop until Dina resigns, he concluded.
In turn, teleSUR Peru staffer Jaime Herrera pointed out that the protests have become more radical and that the number of victims is likely to increase as there is no full balance of the situation.
“People have said that as long as their demands are not met, they will continue to protest, demand and sue, and that it will turn into an indefinite strike,” he commented.
For his part, the imprisoned Castillo conveyed a message to the Peruvian people, affirming: “I am unconditionally loyal to the popular and constitutional mandate that I hold as President and will not relinquish or relinquish my high and sacred functions.”
“What was recently said by a usurper is nothing but the same snot and drool of coup law,” he insisted.
THREAT AND NO HOPE
2023 sounds more than hopeful in Peru when an interim president has decided to seek support for her management from the elites who previously despised her.
The groups that support her today also questioned her, even trying to get her expelled from the Congressional Subcommittee on Constitutional Allegations (SAC).
Dina Boluarte’s first weeks as President of the Republic were a threat to the population in general because of the way she opposed social protests.
In this regard, former Prime Minister Mirtha Vázquez Chiquilín underscored Boluarte’s grave error in seeking allies from those who had previously led outright opposition to her predecessor Pedro Castillo, blurting out that she should not seek protection from “those proven cunning elites who whom they previously despised, but now they make her feel a part of them by letting her take the presidency in exchange for trusting them to run the government”.
With that in mind, he reminds you that the groups who are your biggest support today would be thinking of reclaiming their privileges:
“The great danger is that those in power now, who have chosen to call themselves patriots and moralizing Democrats who wish to hide their true identities, appear poised not only to reclaim their privileges, but also under acting under the motto of disciplining a people he not only dared to elect a president whose sheer image challenged these racist and class-conscious elites, but also to chastise them for abusing them over the last two decades for the gross violations of human rights, they committed in the 1990s.”
In conclusion, Vázquez Chiquilín warned that with the support of right-wing groups represented in Parliament, Dina Boluarte would pose a threat to citizens willing to mobilize on the streets:
“With the regrouping of this sector, 2023 sounds more like a threat than a hope to us; People are now preparing to resist and are aware of what they may receive in response.”