Former President Francisco Morales Bermúdez died last Thursday, July 14, in Italy, where he had been serving a life sentence for his participation in the “Plan Condor.” Given this fact, the Government has declared national mourning for his death today, Saturday, July 16, 2022.
Through Supreme Decree No. 086-2022-PCM published in the newspaper El Peruano, the Peruvian State explains that this measure corresponds to the provisions of the State Ceremonial and the Regional Ceremonial where it is decreed to grant funeral honors to the funeral of Morales Bermudez.
In addition, the National Pavilion must be hoisted to half mast in all military installations and police stations located throughout the Peruvian territory during July 16 of this year.
Who was Morales Bermudez?
Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerrutti was President of the Republic of Peru between August 29, 1975 and July 28, 1980.
In 2017, the former president was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian justice system due to his participation in the ‘Plan Condor’. Along with him, the former Peruvian soldiers Pedro Richter Prada and Germán Ruiz Figueroa were also sentenced.
During that trial, the sentence was also read to five other former soldiers from Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia for being part of a repression plan against opponents of the military junta that governed South American countries between 1970 and 1980.
The Bolivians Luis García Meza and Luis Arce Gómez, the Chileans Hernán Jerónimo Ramírez and Rafael Ahumada Valderrama, the Uruguayan Juan Carlos Blanco shared the same fate as Morales Bermúdez.
