Ministry of Culture formalizes resignation of Sonaly Tuesta as Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage

The Executive made official the resignation of Sonaly Toesta Altamirano to the position of Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries in the Ministry of Culture, two days after she herself reported that she had been asked to leave the position for criticizing Aníbal Torres.

The supreme resolution 006-2022-MCpublished this Saturday in the legal regulations bulletin of El Peruano, indicates that the aforementioned official has resigned from the position and that it is pertinent to accept it.

The text bears the signatures of the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, and the Minister of Culture, Alejandro Salas.

Sonaly Tuesta leaves the position of Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage.

On April 7, Sonaly Tuesta herself reported that she had been asked to present her resignation for having questioned the expressions of the Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres, about Adolf Hitler during a Decentralized Cabinet meeting in Junín.

“Today I have been asked to resign from the position of Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries of the Ministry of Culture. The reason? Pronounce myself against the Prime Minister’s speech that emulates the genocidal Hitler as a symbol of development. I am obviously leaving office,” she wrote on Twitter.

Today I have been asked to resign from the position of Vice Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries of the @MinCulturaPe The reason? Pronounce myself against the Prime Minister’s speech that emulates the genocidal Hitler as a symbol of development. Obviously, I’m leaving office.

– Sonaly Tuesta (@sonalytuesta) April 8, 2022

Sonaly Tuesta criticized Aníbal Torres

Hours earlier, during the inauguration of the cultural exhibition “The values of the Caral civilization”, Sonaly Tuesta criticized that the prime minister had used what was done by the late Nazi leader, when he could have put one of the Peruvian cultures as a model of development. .

“If we do not recognize the legacies of our ancestors, we are going to have speeches as regrettable as the one by the premier this morning, in which he emulates a genocide like Hitler to talk about development”said the journalist during the aforementioned event.

“I could very easily talk about the Caral civilization, talk about the Chankas, the Incas and so many cultures that we have in our country of men and women who, with their wisdom, have built a better community and have built a better management of reciprocity. ”he added.

Alejandro Salas confirmed that he had asked Tuesta Altamirano to resign after she herself did not present her letter on her own initiative.

“She did not feel comfortable with those words of the premier, she should not have waited for them to request her resignation, she should have resigned on the spot and not continue in office with a premier who did not represent her, according to her words”he expressed.