He no longer has anything to say. He ran out of speech. The minister has no words left to explain why the hitmen dominate the streets, why there are more Peruvians murdered by crime and extortion during his administration, why he has not done anything to confront it as he should. Juan José Santiváñez does not know what to say when he is questioned about his inability to lead the Ministry of the Interior.
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Defended to the excess by the president and her entire cabinet, Santiváñez did not know how to defend himself yesterday in Cusco. Minutes after being discharged due to a decompensation due to altitude sickness, the head of the Mininter faced the local press, who criticized him for his mismanagement and incapacity, a reproach for which he almost lost his temper.
Despite the uncontrollable wave of hitmen and murders and despite the fact that the Death Information System (SINADEF) reports 1,493 violent deaths this year in the country, a figure that exceeds all of 2023, the minister reiterated yesterday that his strategy against insecurity It is giving results.
“We are achieving results. If there are people who do not want to see it or have the source of information that is not adequate, that is a question that will be determined when we finish working,” an uncomfortable Santiváñez defended himself.
Apparently still convalescing from soroche, the minister pointed out that he is not guided by surveys or comments on social networks and that he responds with his work.
“I don’t respond with qualifiers, I respond with my work, with the results, with the work we are doing in the city of Lima, with the result we are giving in the fight against crime,” he said.
After that and without the intention of continuing to respond, the minister stood up and ended his eventful meeting with the press just when they asked him about the whereabouts of the fugitive Vladimir Cerrón, about the new audios with Captain ‘Culebra’, if He was clinging to his position and was thinking about resigning.
And just as he minimized crime and highlighted his work above what reality shows, Santiváñez also downplayed the collapse in the Lima Central Morgue. Workers reported that the number of deaths from gunshots increased.
“That is not a valid standard to measure whether crime has decreased or not, with respect to the dead that are in the morgue,” responded the minister, who distanced himself from the issue and said that this claim should be addressed by the Public Ministry. , since it does not correspond to your sector.
Earlier, Santiváñez described as “false” the audio broadcast by the Cuarto Poder program in which he allegedly confessed to PNP captain Junior Izquierdo, known as ‘Culebra’, that “there are two generals who are protecting Cerrón.” The minister was unaware of the recording and pointed out that they are only looking for a rating with that information.
“POLITICAL BALLAST”
For former Vice Minister of the Interior Ricardo Valdés, Santiváñez has become a political liability for the Government at this point in his administration.
“At this point the Minister of the Interior feels cornered by his own words, by his refusal to give answers; “He is a person who has clearly become a political liability for the Government,” said Valdés, who explained that the situation that the country is experiencing due to crime is something that cannot be hidden, since, in addition, it spreads in all media.
“The figures, the numbers of victimization of violent deaths, the lack of management in the Ministry of the Interior that is really affecting security in the country, all this has already been disseminated by all the media and I believe that the population already knows it” , he argued.
The specialist pointed out that the little sympathy that the population has with President Boluarte is precisely because of the terrible management in the Interior sector.
“Here what draws attention are the reasons why the president or the premier have not proceeded to change them; That already gives a lot to think about or, at least, raise some hypotheses in the sense of what information Santiváñez could be handling regarding the president, regarding the Cerrón issue. It is just a hypothesis, but it gives rise to many things to think about,” Valdés told Peru21.
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