Little more than five months he presided over Joseph Louis Gavidia the Ministry of Defence (Mindef). Appointed on February 1, the rear admiral of the Navy (r) presented his resignation on August 17 to the president peter castleclaiming “personal motives” previously discussed with the president and the prime minister, Aníbal Torres.
From the beginning of his management in the Mindef, his history was alerted. Two days after being made official, Latina Noticias published a complaint of family violence made against him on September 3, 2021. The then Minister of Defense answered evasively that it was a “Very personal issue.”
In office, a program of the same medium revealed that he used the state plane to attend an official activity in Huánuco with his daughters for three days despite the fact that the immediate return was planned. The weekly Hildebrandt en sus trece also exposed an alleged nepotism made in the Production portfolio. Gavidia’s wife, María Valdivieso, having taken over the MINDEF —and violating article 11 of the State Procurement Law—executed a service order for an amount of S/ 24,000.
For the same infraction, the First Office of the First Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Public Officials of Lima opened a preliminary investigation against Verónica Gavidia Rodríguez, daughter of the aforementioned, for her hiring in the National Forest and Wildlife Service (Serfor). It was in this context that Gavidia resigned.
To succeed him, the head of state appointed an acquaintance from the public sector: General EP (r) Richard Tineo Quispe, also executive director of a dependency of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the National Telecommunications Program (Pronatel).
History of Richard Tineo
Richard Washington Tineo Quispe is an EP (r) general who graduated in 1987. In 2016, still with Kuczynski in the Government and Mariano González in the Defense portfolio, he was promoted from colonel to Army Communications Brigadier General. The supreme resolution dates from October 13 of that year.
At the end of 2019, Tineo and other members of his promotion, called Andrés Avelino Cáceres, went into retirement.
On May 5, 2022, ministerial resolution No. 369-2022-MTC/01 ordered the appointment of Richard Tineo as general director of the General Directorate of Policies and Regulation in Communications of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC). Then, the sector was headed by Nicolás Bustamante Coronado.
On the MTC website he is listed as executive director of the National Telecommunications Program (Pronatel). Like any official, his affidavit of interests should be available for public consultation, but it is not.
Non-existent information on Richard Washington Tineo Quispe. Photo: MTC capture
Six ministers changed at the beginning of August
More than 2 weeks ago, Castillo Terrones appointed six new members of the Aníbal Torres cabinet. He included Miguel Rodríguez Mckay in the portfolio of Foreign Relations; Kurt Burneo in Economics and Finance; Alejandro Salas for Work and Employment Promotion; Geiner Alvarado for Transport and Communications; Dina Boluarte for Development and Social Inclusion; and César Paniagua for Housing.
Recently appointed: who is Claudia Dávila Moscoso, fourth Minister for Women?
A law student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a master’s degree in Human Rights from the same university, Dávila serves as an advisor to various State portfolios.
He provided services in 2014 to the Ministry of the Interior, advised the deputy minister of the Ministry of Women in 2016 and the Qali Warma program of the Ministry of Development and Inclusion.
In February 2019, she returned to the Interior office to be, first, director of Modernization and Institutional Development, and second, office manager.
Claudia Davila Moscoso. Photo: Presidency
Recently appointed: who is Wilbert Rozas, the new Minister of the Environment?
The agronomist Rozas was the provincial mayor of Anta, in the department of Cusco, from 2007 to 2010. Six years later he ran as a congressman for the Broad Front and was elected. After Martín Vizcarra ordered the dissolution of congress in 2019, the Third Office of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Corruption Crimes of Officials filed a complaint against him for the presumption of having benefited a supplier during his management as a municipal authority.
Wilbert Rozas was appointed as the new Minister of the Environment. Photo: Presidency
Updated by Pilar Baldeon
Pedro Castillo changes on average more than one minister every week
With the three changes of yesterday, the Government adds, in almost thirteen months of management, 68 ministerial changes. peter castle He has been in power for 382 days, which is equivalent to 56 weeks. That is, she has changed, on average, to more than one minister per week (1.2 to be exact).
This is convincing data that reflects the precariousness of the Executive. No serious public policy can be sustained in this way. At this stage, that the president takes the oath of new ministers has even ceased to be relevant news. What is striking and scandalous are the constant changes that pierce the public sector.
In these 56 weeks, 62 different people have held a portfolio. The most unstable sector is the Interior. Seven different ministers have succeeded him: John Carrasco, Luis Barranzuela, Avelino Guillen, Alfonso Chavarry, Dimitre Senmache, Mariano Gonzalez and now, Willy Huerta.
They go? According to the ruling congressman, Aníbal Torres will leave the premiership. Other groups of ministers would follow the same path. Photo: diffusion
