The former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez will continue to face the process that is followed by the failed attempted coup d’etat Pedro Castilloafter the Prosecutor’s Office gave up the request to prolong the preventive detention against him. The decision was ratified by the Second Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court, which confirmed the validity of the simple appearance regime.
He Public Ministry He had initially requested the extension of the restrictive measure, but finally acknowledged that it was no longer appropriate, since the preventive detention had defeated and Chavez was out of the prison for a prior ruling of the Constitutional Court. With this, the discussion about the extension of his imprisonment was without effect.
Betssy Chávez would work on the office of Congressman Roberto Sánchez
After knowing the decision of the Judiciary, which also former Betssy Chávez was proposed to hold the position of Advisor II in Roberto Sánchez’s parliamentary office. The document, dated September 4, 2025, states that the contract would be under the modality of trusted personnel and with the beginning of functions since September 5.
The application is signed and approved by Sánchez Palomino himself, who was also a minister during the Government of Pedro Castillo. If this hiring was completed, Chavez would go to work in Parliament in the midst of the judicial process that he faces for the events of December 7, 2022, when Castillo tried a coup d’etat. The eventual return of the former prime minister to a public office generates controversy, since it remains under fiscal investigation for crimes of rebellion and conspiracy.
