The president’s refusal Dina Boluarte to respond directly to the press—she has not done so for 93 days—and the use of her speeches to attack her critics earned a response from legislators from different groups who demanded that the president “concentrate on doing her job” instead. to coin terms such as “image terrorism.”
“A series of very creative names have been launched lately. The president should be concerned about issues such as insecurity, qualifying or feeling creative to generate news does not seem serious to me. The president and her cabinet, I understand, are doing work that does not translate into public opinion, we have serious situations of insecurity; (Boluarte) should concentrate on doing his job and not responding to the media,” said the first vice president of Congress, Patricia Juárez.
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Alejandro Cavero, from Avanza País, for his part, commented that the head of state shows that “she has no sense of urgency in the face of the crisis and is living in a parallel reality where her main concern is what the media says instead to address the serious crisis of insecurity facing the country.” The comment did not go unnoticed by Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén who, in a press conference, regretted the statement of the third vice president of the Legislature and, trying to discredit him, recalled that he has photos with Andrés Hurtado, ‘Chibolín’.
The one who did align himself with Boluarte’s position was his former political partner, the perulibrista Waldemar Cerrón. “I share, in part, what the president said in the sense that there are media that cause anxiety in everyone. When it is said that Congress—as the newspaper La República does—protects criminal organizations, what is that called? Press terrorism or act of terrorism because they are saying that the Congress It is an organization that is covering criminals,” he commented.
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The National Association of Journalists rejected Boluarte’s statements against the press and maintained that “there is not a week that the Executive does not attack journalism.”
In addition, he asked to be alert against a possible attempt by the government to affect information freedoms.
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