The government of former President Pedro Castillo was characterized by appointing and benefiting authorities that are related to Movadef, Fenatep and Conare-Sute, all groups that are linked to Sendero Luminoso, especially when it came to appoint prefects and sub-prefects at the national level.
And it is that, as Peru21 has been warning since the end of last year, these authorities who are responsible for supervising the authorities of their regions, provinces and districts -for a salary of approximately S/4,200 (the prefects)- were mostly linked to radical organizations and/or to Peru Libre.
Despite the fact that the Minister of Defense, Alberto Otárola, assured two days ago that these officials will cease to exist, here is a recount of the profiles that went through these positions during the government of ex-president Pedro Castillo.
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It was the former Minister of the Interior, Avelino Guillén, who signed on November 25, 2021, the first 13 supreme resolutions to appoint half of the regional prefects at the national level.
the first 13
To this we must add that the person in charge of presenting the proposals for the positions of prefects was the director general of the Interior Government at that time, the chotano professor José Segundo Rafael Heredia. In other words, a countryman and colleague of former President Pedro Castillo, who also has a teaching degree and is the leader of Fenatep.
Of the first 13 designated, nine were the cases that stood out. For example, that of the prefect of Áncash, Manuela Elizabeth Méndez Rojas, who is general assistant secretary of the Conare-Sute de Recuay.
There is also the case of the former mayor of Moquegua, Guillermo Edgard Rea Tito, who together with Castillo promoted the 2017 magisterial protests against the government of then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Rea supports Fenatep, is secretary of Suter and his name appears in the report “Infiltration of Movadef in some leaderships of the teachers”, presented in 2017 by the then Minister of the Interior Carlos Basombrío, in which the promoters of the teachers strike. Edgar Rea was arrested that year for blocking roads.
Lucinda Quispealaya Salvatierra, former mayor of Junín, is related to the secretary and owner of the government party, Vladimir Cerrón. She was a regional councilor for Chupaca during Cerrón’s first term as governor and is currently being investigated for alleged embezzlement in the transfer of the Chanchamayo hospital budget. Quispealaya was joined by the case of Eudis Pedro Laureano Salinas, from Pasco.
Laureano assured this newspaper at that time that he was “part of the Fenatep” and that the trust in his position was given to him by the former head of State Castillo himself. “In this government there are no acts of corruption, less by the president. Another case was that of Edwar Lenin Chuquilín Hernández, former prefect of Cajamarca who was promoted to director general of the Interior Government.
Roger Apolinar Ortiz, ex-prefect of Lima Provinces, Ronal Llanos Gálvez, ex-authority of Amazonas and the ex-prefect of Puno, Roger Narciso Puraca Soncco, are members of the Fenatep. Rubén Quispe Ventura, ex-prefect of Ayacucho, was a PL militant and collected signatures for the change of the Constitution.
They were handpicked
This newspaper also denounced that the division between the Castillo and Cerronista factions was becoming evident above all in the election of the prefects and sub-prefects. For example, the sector that supported Vladimir Cerrón denounced that Grover Mamani, a professor and representative of the Coordinadora del Movimiento Magisterial (allies of President Pedro Castillo), was the one who was handpicking the prefects and sub-prefects of the different regions and provinces of the country.
The teacher, in addition to being a friend of the former head of state, has no titles-according to Sunedu-and was announced in August 2021 as a possible Director General of the Interior Government, according to former Vice Minister Carlos León Romero, who submitted his resignation for that reason. Ultimately, Mamani’s designation was never given.
However, Mamani did not stop relating to authorities of the past government. Coincidentally, one of the tasks that he had to carry out in the Interior Government Directorate – if he had been appointed – was nothing more and nothing less than appointing the 1,800 prefects and sub-prefects throughout the country.
The claims became publicly known on January 13, when a group of Cerronista supporters of Peru Libre held a sit-in at the main headquarters of the Puno Regional Prefecture, demanding new appointments in the positions of prefects and sub-prefects.
Movadef Sub-Prefects
In the resolutions signed in August of this year, by the director general of the Interior Government of that , Edward Chuquilín Hernández –ex-prefect of Cajamarca–, one bears the names of two Movadef adherents. They are Madaleyne Graciela Alata Fernández and Lily Espíritu Ramírez, representatives of Áncash.
Peru21 reveal in September 2022 that Madaleyne Alata, authority of the Llamellin district, located in the province of Antonio Raimondi, has her name and signature on the Movadef planillions.
This case is repeated with the sub-prefect of the district of Catac, province of Recuay, Lily Espíritu, who, unlike Alata, has been affiliated with Peru Libre since January 3, 2022. In addition, she is a fervent defender of the government and, through of social networks, shows sympathy for the congresswoman of Together for Peru, Sigrid Bazán.
