Hernando de Soto denied having any rapprochement with Pedro Castillo in the 2021 runoff election.

Economist and President of the Institute for Freedom and Democracy Hernando de Soto denied this Thursday, February 23, a rapprochement with former President Pedro Castillo in the context of the second round of elections. general election 2021.

IN News extensionformer presidential candidate Preliminary country said that although he spoke with Terrones Castle in Mankor, reg. piuraafter the end of the first round of elections, this situation does not mean that there was close-up With former teacher of Chotanwho is currently turning 18 months of pre-trial detention for the attempted coup d’état on 7 December.

“During the second round, I was never close because he [Pedro Castillo] he visited me. To be absolutely clear, the day he visited me at Mancora was two or three days after [Rafael] López Allaga said he wanted to talk to Castillo. I had to speak in the war against Sendero [Luminoso] with terrorist elements because it was part of the show, how could I refuse to speak?

“But there has never been any rapprochement,” he added.

desoto confirmed that he publicly expressed his support for the leader of Fuerza Popular in the second round of elections, Keiko Fujimori.

“I met Keiko and went out to support her, but the “trolls” from [Rafael] Lopez Allaga are starting to say that there is a rapprochement. there was no approach [con Pedro Castillo]”, he asserted.

US trip announced with a delegation of mining and agricultural leaders

On the other side, Hernando Soto repeated that in the coming days he would travel to Washington, United States, with delegations of mining and agricultural leaders from the peasant communities in Fist And Apurimacand representatives of the Ayacucho self-defense committees to hold meetings with concessionaires “going to work with lithium and uranium” in the country.

“The main leaders are those who represent medium-sized mining enterprises such as Ananea, La Rinconada, Puno, not illegal, but informal in the sense that in some cases they did not follow all non-mining procedures, but are social character and ecological,” he said.

“On the one hand, we have people from Puno, people who have concessions and are going to work with lithium and uranium in Puno. We have sections of the Las Bambas mining corridor; as well as the self-defense committees of Ayacucho,” he added.

He economist He noted that the Alaska Native Federation supports the process because it is “sympathetic” to the cause. “We are old friends and have collaborated in India, the Philippines and elsewhere because we are very interested in how third world countries are integrating into 21st century modernity.”