The ex-president Alexander Toledo He is facing an extradition process that would soon force him to answer before the Peruvian justice system. While he tries to delay his return by filing legal appeals before the US court, from Peru his former vice president, david waismanhe waits for the day when he sees a prisoner in Barbadillo where they are also Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo.
“I don’t hate him,” the former ally of the investigated told Correo. He says he feels bitter about the betrayal committed against the millions of Peruvians who trusted him during the end of the dictatorship. “I am hungry for justice for the damage he has done to the country. (…) I think the best punch I could give him is to see him in jail next to (Alberto) fujimori”, he indicated with the hope that Toledo accept the sincere confession.
By sharing the details about the alleged acts of corruption committed during his government, the public would know the rest of the figures involved. “That they also pay so that there is an exemplary punishment against all public officials and the applicants know that they will not escape justice if they commit robberies.” indicated the former vice president who also questions Pedro Pablo Kuczinski.
David Waisman recalled the occasion when Alejandro Toledo threatened Pedro Pablo Kuczinski with “talking.” “PPK was one of the people closest to Toledo. I am sure, almost sure, that a very large percentage of all the acts of corruption that compromised Toledo have been done with him,” added the interviewee to the aforementioned outlet about the former president investigated by the Peruvian authorities.
“One of the people who has to be deeply concerned about the upcoming arrival of Toledo must be PPK. I think that if Kuczynski had had the time to serve his term, even though he was terribly in a fight with Toledo, he would have been forced to make every effort to clear the way for Toledo, and clean himself. But he didn’t have enough time, ”added David Waisman.
A trip to Cabana, Alejandro Toledo’s hometown, touched David Waisman who, at the age of 62, heard the story of the extremely poor boy who succeeded academically abroad. “That to me was very moving. He showed us that small house where you could still see the traces burned on the wall by candles, because they had no electricity, water or drainage, ”said the former vice president.
The opposition to the government of Alberto Fujimori was what marked the political union between the two. Despite having voted for the then president, he was convinced that he had to face a government with great questions of corruption. “I voted for Alberto Fujimori. I liked his motto: honesty, technology and work. Do you adhere to that, I asked Toledo? “Don’t fuck with me,” Toledo replied, in the way he talked about him. “I am against that dictatorship,” Waisman recalled.
A shared ideology consolidated their closeness. Support for the national industry, work with added value and the transformation of raw materials in Peru were the pillars of David Waisman’s plans that convinced the then presidential candidate. “He shook my hand again. That’s how we started everything,” says the man who at times would be in charge of the presidency during a government in which scandalous acts of corruption were committed that still remain to be resolved.
