‘Don’t stick your nose in Peru’: Maria del Carmen Alva criticizes Gabriel Boric’s statements

congresswoman Maria del Carmen AlvaPresident of the Commission on Foreign Relations, criticized the recent statements of the President of Chile, Gabriel Boricin time VII CELAC Summitin which he spoke about the political and social situation of the country.

“At the CELAC summit, we had many presidents who raised the issue of Peru, obviously they are all from the same group, the same ideology (…) I mentioned (in an interview) the following: they should not poke their nose into Peru, just like we don’t say anything about Chile because it can’t interfere in our country,” he said.

In an interview with the RPP, a deputy from popular action noted that in a recent interview with a Chilean newspaper, which will soon be published, he ruled out that Congress of the Republic or some other institution in the country carried out a coup against the former president Pedro Castillo.

“Borich says that here we kill all the young people who come out to make just demands. I told him that human rights are respected here and that what is happening on the streets is that there are no peaceful protests, that there are violent marches that commit terrorist acts, because the narrative is different,” he added.

at another time Maria del Carmen Alva He questioned whether this argument was shared by the presidents of countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, despite the “strong” explanations of the Peruvian foreign minister. In addition, he described the President’s speech as “solid”. Dina Boluarte during their virtual participation in this meeting.

As you know, on Tuesday, Chilean President Gabriel Boric addressed the government Dina Boluarte “change course” in the face of last month’s “unacceptable” violence in more than 50 deaths that have been reported since the resumption of anti-government protests.

“We cannot remain indifferent when today, in our sister country Peru, people who go on the march and demand what they consider to be fair end up getting shot by those who are supposed to protect them,” he said. Borik during his speech at CELAC Summit.

The product of this Ministry of Foreign Affairsthrough Vice-Chancellor Ignacio Higueras, conveyed to the Chilean Ambassador the dissatisfaction caused by the way President Gabriel Boric, in his speech at CELAC, called President Dina Boluarte disrespectful.

“(The Vice-Chancellor) told him that the course taken by the constitutional government of President Boluarte was to promote general elections so that the Peruvians decide the fate of Peru unhindered and peacefully. The government will not change the course of democratic institutions,” reads the Foreign Ministry’s Twitter account.

The chancellor regrets the position of some countries

Within VII CELAC Summitwhich took place in Buenos Aires, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, gave hints about the current situation in Peru. In this regard, he distinguished the peaceful protest of historically marginalized sections of the population from “violent actions to overthrow the constitutional order and achieve political goals that these groups cannot achieve by constitutional means.”

With regard to deaths due to acts of violence, Chancellor Gervasi stated that “the prosecution conducts investigations with full autonomy and accompanies National Police in action to combat violence and protect people’s lives, of the 33 million Peruvians who are the true victims of this situation of violence.”

In this vein, he questioned that “some governments from particularly close countries did not accompany Peru in this difficult institutional situation and rather prioritized ideological proximity, unconditional support for the rule of law and constitutional continuity.”

In his address to the Heads of State and Government of Latin America and the Caribbean Chancellor He said that the Transitional Government of Peru expects our regional community to reject any measures aimed at violating the stability and democratic institutions in my country, as well as the use of indiscriminate violence and acts of vandalism. Furthermore, it reaffirms the democratic and institutional solution proposed by the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte: To hold general elections for 2024 so that the people of Peru, sovereignly and without any interference, decide their future in peace and freedom.

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