After more than 100 days of silence, the president Dina Boluarte gave a lecture press release in which he highlighted the announcement of new measures in Immigration, specifically aimed at citizens Venezuelans that enter the country. Boluarte reported that a work or rental contract will be required as an entry requirement, a measure motivated by the increase in crimes such as hitman and the extortionattributable to organized criminal gangs that have begun to operate in Peru. This measure seeks to control the entry of people and stop crime in the country.
“It’s not that we are not doing anything and now we will make a readjustment in Migrations“We are going to require every Venezuelan who supposedly works legally to present their employment contract, to present their rental contract,” he stated.
Likewise, the president Boluarte He promised to do financial monitoring to know where that money is coming from. In addition, he sent a message to people who rent rooms to foreigners from Venezuela and announced that they would work together with the National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) “to be able to control those who rent and those who do not demonstrate where their income comes from”
“We are going to monitor the financial system, the foreign currency or remittances that are sent out of the country to know where they generate that income and anyone who does not answer where the money comes from, we are going to catch them there.”
Private companies hired more than 74 thousand foreigners until 2023
According to data issued by the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE)Until December 2023, private companies formalized 74,414 foreign citizens as their collaborators. It should be remembered that according to article 4 of the “Law on the Hiring of Foreign Workers”, a company can only have a limit of 20% of people of another nationality within its staff.
On the other hand, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reported that 1,354,891 people who live more than 12 months in Peru, including children and older adults, are foreigners. That is, 5.5% of the foreign population accessed formal employment in the private sector in 2023.
President Boluarte continues to support Minister Juan Santiváñez despite his mistakes
Dina Boluarte gave his support to the current Minister of the Interior,Juan José Santiváñez; In that sense, he denied that he was going to resign or be changed from his position, despite the increase in crimes of hitmen and extortion that have not decreased in the country and the mistake with the mistaken arrest of the supposed number two in command of Sendero Luminoso, issue for which he has not yet spoken.
“In the particular case of the Minister of the Interior, assuming a ministry is not an administrative job, it is more complex and time must be given to the ministers and officials so that they can show results, the figures speak for themselves of how many captured, of how many dismantled gangs, we have to give them the opportunity to give greater results. The change generates destabilization of public management, those who know public management know what I am talking about,” he responded.
Dina Boluarte denies covering up any fugitive from justice
At another point in the press conference and with his arrogant responses to the press, Boluarte He refused to answer who he visited during his stay at the Mikonos condominium because it was a “personal” matter.
“I want to tell the Peruvian population, the ‘cofre’, the only person who uses the ‘cofre’ is the president of the Republic, and it is not going to cover up any fugitive whatever their name is, that is my truth against Peru “In front of our brothers in the country, I do not protect any fugitives and rather those who are hiding them should hand them over because they will be complicit in not responding to justice,” he mentioned.
