For the president of the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep), Óscar Caipo, the changes in the heads of four ministries are not enough, because in his opinion, there should be a total renewal of the cabinet that he presides over Hannibal Torres.
As is known, this Sunday President Pedro Castillo swore in four new ministers in the sectors of Transport and Communications, Agricultural Development and Irrigation, Interior, and Energy and Mines.
“Aníbal Torres should have already left and made way for a cabinet that has cohesion. It seems that Aníbal Torres has other interests, not necessarily dealing with the problems that are appearing. The Midagri has a fertilizer crisis; however, they appoint a person who has no experience”he pointed.
In addition, Caipo maintained “valuable time has been lost”, referring to the permanence of the last four former ministers, but also to the entire cabinet in charge, after the dissolution of the one that accompanied Héctor Valer.
Despite this, he hopes that the Interior and Energy and Mines portfolios will get back on track, but he does not trust that the same will happen with the MTC and Midagri. “Two of the new ministers have experience in sectors such as Minem and the Interior and the other two do not show any concrete experience in their sector, especially one of them who has very little professional experience,” said.
Along these lines, the president of Confiep stated that the global crisis and that generated during this government directly influences the population that now has 20% less purchasing power. Small and micro-enterprises are hit, “Of 4,000 footwear companies in Trujillo, there are only 2,000, the rest of the producers work as street vendors. The government’s timid response comes 10 months later, when many have disappeared.”he pointed.
Finally, Caipo referred that the regions have also fallen behind, since “In Puno there are sanitation or paving works that are less than 1% done, the airline from Cusco to Puno is not reactivated. In Pucallpa the panorama is bleak, in Ucayali the region has been abandoned, statistics: in schools, 8% have access to the 3 basic services and 6% have internet connection, 33% of households have the three basic services and there are power problems”he warned.
