Answers are sought before the narco-terrorist attack. Congressmen from different benches were in favor of ministers Vicente Romero (Ministry of Interior) and Jorge Chávez Cresta (Ministry of Defense) be summoned before the Defense Commission to explain what actions they adopted after the ambush where seven police officers died who belonged to the Natividad Police Station (Cusco) and the Special Operations Directorate (Diroes).
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Parliamentarian Juan Carlos Lizarzaburu (Popular Force) warned that he observes a “lack of action” on the part of Vicente Romero to reverse subversive actions and drug trafficking.
“I agree with quoting the (Interior) Minister. However, the commandos of the Vraem regions must have already taken action on the matter. Terrorists have to be prosecuted and hit with the full force of the law,” he told Peru21.
The parliamentarian even stressed that the president Dina Boluarte “cannot be oblivious to the attack”, which would have been directed by the Senderista column of ‘Leonardo’, by orders of Víctor Quispe Palominoalias ‘José’, according to military intelligence sources for this newspaper.
“The president should already be giving the directives to put an end to narcoterrorism. As the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, she has to apply a strong hand and these violent acts have to stop now”, claimed Lizarzaburu.
In his turn, José Cueto (Popular Renewal) stressed that citing Romero and Chávez Cresta “is the right thing to do” given “the lack of action” after the attack by Sendero Luminoso del Vraem.
“I don’t see any action from them. Personally, I am inclined to question them; We will talk about that with my bench this Monday ”, he mentioned to Peru21.
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will not go unpunished
The head of the Mininter, Vincent Romeroassured that the murder of the seven troops in Vraem will not go unpunished.
“We will respect the memory of the brave officers who leave their families full of pain after falling in the line of duty,” he told Canal N.
He ratified that the authorship of the attack corresponds to Sendero Luminoso and its alliance with drug trafficking. “This area is a valley where coca leaves are planted and there are also bastions of terrorism. There is a strategic alliance between drug trafficking and terrorism to be able to defend their illegal actions ”, he concluded.
