US EditionPeru: Pedro Castillo Is Convicted, and the Right-Wing Strategy Diversifies
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Peru: Pedro Castillo is convicted, and the right-wing strategy diversifies
Blocking Candidates. The right wing’s veto of potential electoral candidates has been completed. Yesterday, Thursday the 27th, the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo Terrones to 11 years, 5 months, and 15 days in prison for the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy to commit rebellion. This sentence would prevent him from running in the new general elections to be held next April, despite the sup…
The leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, spoke about the recent convictions of former Presidents Pedro Castillo and Martín Vizcarra, calling them “lamentable” for the country. She stressed that both sentences are of first instance and can be appealed, but remarked that, in the case of Vizcarra, “there was strong evidence” related to alleged acts of corruption when he was regional governor. She pointed out that it is appropriate to wait for …
Investigative journalist Carlos Paredes claims that the sentence given to the coupist Pedro Castillo must have been greater. And that Martín Vizcarra, the popular ‘Lagarto’, is a ‘traitor and liar, compulsive’. Carlos, the ‘castilistas’ say that the left will win the elections again and the teacher will be released. What do you think? I think he is well sentenced. They should have imposed more years, because what he did was very serious, he gave…
The Chief of Staff, Ernesto lvarez, reveals that the Executive salutes the recent convictions handed down by the Judiciary to former Presidents Mart n Vizcarra and Pedro Castillo in the same week.
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