Peru looks scared. It is his everyday face. And while the country crouches so that the bullets fired by the hitmen and extortion do not fall on it, the government of Dina Boluarte does not listen, does not respond to the citizen clamor, does not know what to do to confront crime.
Their strategies to reduce insecurity do not give results: murders continue to increase in a country where no one is safe anymore and where the Minister of the Interior, the main person responsible for this moment of terror that Peruvians are experiencing, remains in office with the permission of the president and her premier.
The population wants Juan José Santiváñez to leave office, to go home. 74% of Peruvians believe that the already indefensible head of the Interior should be removed from office, according to the latest survey carried out by Ipsos for Peru21.
In Lima, the city hardest hit by delinquency, crime and extortion, the figure rises to an overwhelming 81%; and in socioeconomic level A, 94% consider that the minister has already completed his cycle.
For a huge majority of the country, frightened by crime, Santiváñez’s administration must come to an end. This Government, however, and despite the brutal and growing statistics of Peruvians killed by crime, has not tired of giving it its support and even praising its work at the head of a defenseless portfolio in the face of this problem that dominates the country.
Crime grows, fear grows and Peruvians do not hide their fears. Transporters, merchants and businessmen appear defenseless against the extortionists who kill for seven soles of quota, and decided to take to the streets to make their voice of protest and pain heard and demand that the Government protect them, to do something more and better than what little that he has been doing.
Peruvians understand this difficult moment that this sector is experiencing and that is why 84% of those interviewed by Ipsos agreed with the national strike that took place last Wednesday the 23rd.
In Lima the acceptance of this protest mobilization reaches 90%. In the north, where hitmen and extortion also frequently cause deaths, 84% were in favor of this paralysis, while in the center 88% approved the march. Only 13% of those surveyed expressed their rejection of this national strike.
“THE SECTOR DOES NOT SHOW SERIOUSNESS”
“The problem is that crime is being organized better than the Police,” explains Sandra Belaunde, a public policy specialist, who believes that the Interior sector is not showing the seriousness that a moment like this deserves.
“Although it is not easy to have a quick result, the message given from the sector is not good. Extortion and contract killings are issues that must be taken very seriously and I believe that the sector is not showing that seriousness. Declaring a state of emergency is not the measure to combat crime, it is a temporary measure that is not even giving results in its temporality. What is needed is to strengthen the Police, strengthen the intelligence of the Police to attack these criminal mafias, so it gives the impression that the lives of these people are not being taken seriously,” the specialist told Peru21.
“This current situation for transporters, which is already reaching more sectors, is a current situation that must be responded to quickly. It is not surprising, therefore, that the population is in favor of the strike and the departure of the minister,” explained Belaunde.
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