How to explain the forest fires?
We Amazonians have suffered a lot with these last fires. These temperatures on our planet seem to confirm that climate change is occurring. It is a red alarm that nature is giving humanity to react, take action and avoid a catastrophe in the coming decades.
But there is also uncontrolled agricultural burning…
There has always been firesbut lately they are intensifying. This increase could be explained by multiple factors. Many can be caused by the irresponsible, accidental or criminal actions of human beings. But it is also true that more fires occur when there is more deforestation; that cannot be denied.
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He says that the Amazon It can become a desert.
It’s true. It’s a danger. And we do not say this to create alarm or anxiety. There are scientific studies that predict that, if tropical forests reach 25% deforestation, it would be irreversible for them to become deserts. In our Amazon We are already at 12% or 13%. But we’re not going to wait until we’re on the brink to worry. It is the largest lung in the world, the greatest diversity and the largest reserve of drinking water. It would not only be catastrophic for Peru, but for humanity.
How to develop sustainably?
With a strategic plan that involves the Amazon Peruvian, which is 62% of the territory. The goal is to stop deforestation in the next 30 years, but also illicit activities that pollute rivers and kill biodiversity, such as drug trafficking and illegal mining. These are 95% of the economic activities of the Amazon and they can lead Peru to a social catastrophe. Entrepreneurs must displace them. There is no other way. The rest is smoke. We need a kind of Marshall Plan to save the Amazon Peruvian This implies closing social gaps in health and education, investment in infrastructure, connectivity, and creating an ecological police force.
These illegal economies also generate the violence in which we live.
The most serious problem we have is, obviously, citizen, property and legal insecurity. If the Amazon has 95% of illicit activities, Peru has 70%. There are few formal companies that bear the entire tax burden. That can’t continue. We are going to become a banana country. In the Amazon the levels of extreme poverty, violence, anemia and parasitosis are chilling, the worst in the country. We have 203 years of independence and we continue as a failed country. But there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, which is a train.
It’s as if the train was coming at full speed to collide and destroy everything. The problem is very serious. We continue as a failed country, paraphrasing the book by Acemoglu and Robinson, “Why do countries fail?” But there is an opportunity. The country must be organized, disciplined and recovered. We must unite to avoid the metastasis that will destroy the nation.
We are very polarized.
We are so divided. It is not possible that we have the Guinness record with an electoral process at 2026 with approximately 60 games in his career. This shows the degree of disorder and social, economic and political decomposition that we have to correct. Entering presidential elections with 60 parties is going to be fatal for Peru. I hope they manage to unite in five or no more than ten alliances, and I hope that the new leaders are illustrious, upright, decent, honest Peruvians. We have to be optimistic. If we are pessimistic, it can be fatal.
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There are also new leaders who are radical.
The people are intelligent. I believe that the people realize who makes utopian or radical proposals that in no country have led to the happiness or development of its people. That’s going to settle down the road. The people realize the benefits of working in peace. Today there is no one who can say that communism is the solution. On the contrary, the communists are retreating. Vietnam, Russia and China They are ultimately capitalists. Almost 50 years of economic development. We have to agree on a minimum agreement. The National Agreement has tried, but fails. They say that the Peruvian is the enemy of another Peruvian, that we do not agree, but I believe that there is room for dialogue. I hope the light turns on for the new leaders. Disruptive changes must be made so that crime does not prevail and informality decreases, so that gaps are closed, but there is no corruption.
You were on the official trip to China.
Peru has to open itself to all foreign investments. Any healthy investment is welcome, with transparency and without conditions. Clean capital moves around the world, but also dark ones. Not only in the capitalist world, where there is more control and transparency. China is no exception to that. Also there, not everything is very transparent, because there is no open, democratic and transparent Government. So, you have to keep your eyes even more open so that these capitals enter very carefully.
The port of Shenzhen is spoken of as the growth model for Chancay. You were there.
It was a port like Chancay about 50 years ago. Deng Xiaoping made the liberal shift. This poor city of less than 40,000 inhabitants had high crime and informality rates. Today, 12 million inhabitants live there, it has high technology and is safer than Miami. We cannot imitate the Chinese model because there is a single party and there is no democracy. By that I do not mean that this model should be applied in Peru, where there is full democracy, and perhaps excessive, practically there is almost anarchism. There you do it first and then you ask for permission. In a democratic country it is more difficult than in China. But we can achieve agreements between Peruvians. Impunity cannot reign. There is no institution that is safe from corruption. Something we can learn is political, economic and social stability. Organized crime is assaulting the country.
How to show the best face in the APEC?
Nor can we hide that Peru is at the tail end of formality. Of the 21 economies, we are the one with the most informality. We will not be able to deny our reality. We will be good hosts, but we have a lot to learn and correct from economies such as the United States, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand. That forum must be used to promote growth and free trade agreements.
What would be the profile of the president of 2026?
We need statesmen, patriots: prepared, cultured, good leaders, upright, honest. The majority of Peruvians are good people. I am sure that the people will support such an alternative. I don’t want to talk about people, but there are some figures out there. I believe that a Peruvian will emerge who manages to bring together many parties in a front, pact or alliance, and who manages to present the dream of a country that is heading towards sustainable and inclusive development in a long-term vision. Because a Government alone is not going to fix this, but, if there is a plan to do it in three decades, with a well-developed strategic plan, I believe that the people can buy that dream. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not someone we know, but could even be an outsider among the 60 candidates for the 2026. Hope must not be lost.
You have spoken about the lack of legal security.
How is it possible that today criminals have more rights than honest people? How is it possible that honest people who pay their taxes are persecuted and laws are applied to them as if they were criminals? We are in a country upside down. The Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Judiciary sometimes work well, but sometimes they ignore each other. The laws are poorly made and are applied in favor of criminals. The last law that Congress made; They have to admit that it doesn’t work. This law of criminal gangs… They have wanted to remedy some abuses of exaggerated interventions that affect the dignity of innocents, but they have gone to the other extreme. They can’t enter because the lawyer doesn’t arrive.
What do you suggest doing?
We good Peruvians have to demand, as the transporters have now come out. All the Peruvian people have to come out and demand that there be order, that crime, corruption, insecurity, mafias, and informality stop. But we have to react. If we react in time, in 30 years we can be among the happiest and most developed countries.
Will the anti-vote end in 2026?
The leaders of the 60 registered parties have a great responsibility there. If you really love the country, we Peruvians call on you to sit down and talk, to make joint plans. There has to be a route where we can coincide. Do not demonize free entrepreneurship. Formalize without so much pressure. Let the VAT drop to 5% and we see where to get other taxes from; have a unique number for the DNI, RUC and other documents; that everyone is in a network with their backgrounds. Peru must be opened for everyone. But that needs a strong Government that comes from the people. Neither extreme right nor extreme left radicalism. We have to go through the democratic center.
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“Because Years “Can’t you run for any party?”
It was regrettable that the candidacy of Years has fallen due to internal problems.
The truth, knowing Don Carlos Añaños and his patriotism, and his values as an entrepreneur and Peruvian, what has happened is regrettable. But you also have to understand it. He cannot run for a party that does not have its statutes well aligned with a democratic and candidate selection process that guarantees that its congressmen will be blameless, honest people, free of criminal convictions and with a good reputation. Because if not it’s going to be the same. I think that in the country we know that this is our Achilles heel. We live with corruption, crime, informality and impunity. And the truth is, Mr. Añaños, to the shame of all Peruvians, has had to step aside.
Will it be repeated in other games?
There is also informality in the law. Why a gentleman YearsWith that profile, can’t you run for any party? Why is there a law that binds him? In the United States, any citizen can apply without being registered. A change in the law must be made before the next elections.
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