After weeks of silence, the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa pronounced on the recent political crisis that still persists in Peru. And he had no filter to question the former president Pedro Castillowho is serving 18 months in preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison for the failed self-coup d’état on December 7 against the Congress of the republic.
In fact, the Peruvian writer compared what was done by Castillo Terrones with what was done by the former president Alberto Fujimori on April 5, 1992. However, with a clear difference. “Pedro Castillo wanted to carry out a coup, but he forgot to inform the military, or at least those who really count, who are the ones who know about these things,” he wrote in his column published in the newspaper The country from Spain.
Vargas Llosa indicated that the international image of Peru has deteriorated in recent weeks because of what happened with Castillo. And he recalled the invocation that he made in the last general elections when asking to bet on Keiko Fujimori.
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“The Peruvians, in a blunder, elected a president like Pedro Castillo, who clearly did not have the basic training to exercise that command. For this reason, I called my compatriots to vote for Keiko Fujimori, who seemed more prepared than the poor Cajamarquino who was elected, ”he added in his text.
The author of The city and the Dogs He also mentioned that there is a clear consensus that Castillo Terrones is “the worst president in the history of Peru, (including, of course, the coup leaders).” “There are positions that cannot be entrusted to a rural teacher like him because it is clearly reckless,” emphasized.
Vargas Llosa also recalled the profile with which Castillo presented himself to the electorate before he won the last elections. “This candidate was someone running for a Marxist party, who had been close to a Shining Path front group, who was ignorant of the laws and had no idea of the basic problems of the country from which the ensuing imbroglios have resulted.” , argument.
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