In a recent message to the nation of President Dina Boluarte, issued from Government Palace, referred to the unemployment of transporters and protests that have been made to demand better measures against citizen insecurity in the country. Boluarte far from making a self -criticism of its management, tried to hold governments Previous of the high level of crime that is lived today, believing that it could make up its bad popularity.
“This government is facing criminal organizations that have been strengthened for decades. This does not exist yesterday for today. Mafias that have nourished abandonment and difference of previous governments,” he said.
To analyze the background of that speech, the Republic spoke with 5 experts in the subject, who agreed that the only guilty of the high crime rate is President Dina Boluarte.
Alejandro Mejía, Professor of Political Science at UNMSM
President Dina Boluarte Zegarra repeats a recurring attitude: pointing to guilty of each problem that has been generated because of her inability to lead, as well as her lack of transparency and disconnection with the problems that afflict the citizen. At no time has a “mea blame” regarding which government is drifting in regard to facing the progress of crime and citizen insecurity in the country.
To point out to previous governments and their responsibility for not having faced this problem, is only a desperate attempt to try to divert the attention of accusations and complaints against him, as well as the resounding failure of the emergency states and the “war rooms” that the citizen on foot does not perceive as effective measures.
Boluarte has preferred to congratulate the benches in exchange for shielding it, instead of putting counterweights to be able to propose to the plenary the necessary reforms to face this scourge. On the contrary, what has adopted is a recurring attitude is to generate tensions among the actors of the justice system, which harms finding solutions in forgotten spaces such as the National Council of Citizen Security.
Wilfredo Pedraza, former Minister of the Interior
After more than two years of the management of President Dina Boluarte Zegarra, it is not serious to accuse the previous governments for the aggravation of citizen insecurity that the country is lived. It is better to show serious efforts to face it, such as the design of a strategy based on intelligence actions. In any case, generalize, shows great misinformation on what is done in the period of former President Ollanta Humala Tasso (2011-2016): 4,200 patrolmen; 5,500 motorcycles:; New Central 105; Tetra communication platform with 7,000 radios; 5 French helicopters; 30,000 guns, 40,000 new police and increased remuneration, among other actions.
Rubén Vargas Céspedes, former Minister of the Interior
Dina Boluarte is the culprit. More than two years in power and the president still does not understand the nature and magnitude of the criminal overflow. Moreover, he is imputable by telling us that it is not your responsibility to provide security. He broke the basic premise of the social contract. If she, who represents the State, is going to wash the hands. Who should we pay to provide us with security, to the Aragua train, to the octopus?
This is much more serious. Congress also resigned from its responsibility for political control and is approving laws (the list is long) that favor criminal organizations. The recent modification to the loss of domain is, in fact, an veiled way of allowing criminal organizations and corrupt in being able to continue usufructing the goods acquired with dirty money. Apparently they forgot that illegal economies move more than 15 billion dollars a year in the country.
This government told us that he had the “Boluarte Plan” and lied. They also said, in March 2023, that they would undergo a deep reform to the internal sector and lie again. The president made her Interior Minister a political operator with the commission to systematically attack the Public Ministry, when what corresponded was to work jointly. The extortion, hitmen, corrupt, drug traffickers and illegal miners have ever had more fertile ground and more dissenting authority. You and the Banks of the Congress with whom Cogobiena are responsible for this riot.
José Alejandro Godoy, political scientist
The Government of Dina Boluarte seeks to blame other administrations because it does not have a plan to face citizen insecurity. It is still true that the security situation in the main cities of the country has been deteriorating for a long time and that strong instability in the Ministry of Interior during the last two decades has plug for the improvement of conditions in this area.
But the truth is that presidential statements denote three serious problems. The first is that the current government does not understand that a good part of the responsibility for the aggravation of this situation is theirs, whether by the appointment of inefficient ministers or with serious problems of conflicts of interest -or characters that gather both characteristics, such as Juan José Santivañez -, either for not observing the rules that, from the Congress of the Republic, have affected the fight against crime.
In the latter case, it is obvious that the government has also sought to protect itself. The second is that the president does not understand that her task is to govern and improve what was done by previous governments. No one asks him to become a Switzerland overnight, but he can begin to improve the situation of the problem that most worries Peruvians. The third is that it seems that the government has thrown the towel and left us to our fate, without being able to defend ourselves in the year left to the current administration. ”
