In June 2024, the Foreign Relations Commission of Congress, then chaired by The Fujimorist Alejandro Aguinagawho is judicially prosecuted for forced sterilizations during the government of Alberto Fujimori, promoted a bill to pursue financing and The activities of NGOs.
The opinion seeks that, through the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), you can control and even denounce these organizations before the Public Ministry and apply sanctions ranging from the fine, suspension and cancellation. It is a attack that was observed with concern for 16 embassies from countries in Europe, Oceania and North America.
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The rule has not yet been debated in the Plenary of Congress because Donald Trump would have been waiting to assume the presidency of the United States again, since the administration of Joe Biden, through the US ambassador to Peru, Stephenie Syptak-Ramnath , expressed his rejection of the project.
In a radio interview, American diplomat defended the role of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which annually allocates more than 60 million dollars to support NGOs in Peru. “We need a free press and also a strong civil society, because the government cannot do everything. This financing does not imply interference, but allows Peruvians to define their own laws and guarantee transparency,” he said.
The change in US administration would benefit sectors that seek to restrict the work of NGOs in the country. With the arrival of Trump, the withdrawal of the support of the USAID to Peru was confirmed, a decision that not only affects civil society, but has also been used by President Dina Boluarte and the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, as an argument in their attacks on these organizations.
The President Dina Boluarte also This week tried to delegitimize the work of NGOsclaiming that they only care about the right of criminals and leave institutions such as the PNP and the Army unprotected. It should be remembered that the president was accused by the NGO Amnesty International to have criminal responsibility in the deaths during the protests between December 2022 and March 2023.
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In the report entitled “Who fired the order?” Despite them, he did not take effective measures to prevent or stop the violence that left more than 50 deaths nationwide.
For his part, Rafael López Aliaga lashed out in various media against NGOs, especially against the NGO Manuela Ramos, who works in favor of the rights of violent women. According to the burgomaster, of the total money contributed by the US Usaid agency, more than one million dollars would have been wasted by the NGO. However, the public accusation was not supported by documents or evidence. In this regard, this organization responded by indicating that it will begin the corresponding legal actions and stressed that each year informs the APCI about the execution of its financing.
Rafael López Aliga party seeks to create commission to investigate contributions from Usaid
The mayor of Lima and leader of the Popular Renewal Party revealed that his bench is promoting the creation of a new commission that seeks to investigate USAID’s contributions, as he indicated, the millions of dollars delivered to government organizations would have been won.
The document was presented by the office of Congressman Patricia Chirinos and has the support of six other members of her bench. The motion seeks to create a multiparty working group to investigate and identify USAID beneficiaries from 2015 to the present.
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In this regard, the Congressman not grouped Flor Pablo, in an interview for Channel N, questioned the eventual creation of a commission that investigates Usaid in Congress. “Why do they serve)?
He also stressed that López Aliaga creates commissions around the situation and emphasized that there was no the same interest of research related to the deaths of Peruvians killed by the government in Ayacucho and Puno.
