Analysis. Internationalists Farid Kahhat and Luciana Cumpa stressed that President Dina Boluarte’s speech on illegal financing of demonstrations does not have objective facts to support it and that it ends up further delegitimizing her.
This week, the version of President Dina Boluarte regarding the demonstrations in the country are being financed by radical people linked to drug trafficking, illegal mining and smuggling was contradicted by her own Minister of Foreign Affairs Ana Maria gervasiwho on Thursday, February 2, told The New York Times that they have no proof that the protests are financed by these groups that operate outside the law.
“We do not have any evidence,” Gervasi told the aforementioned international media, regarding an alleged illegal financing of the protests.
However, Gervasi told the American newspaper that she is sure they will find the evidence. “I’m sure we’ll have that evidence very soon,” she said.
Then he dismissed the self-convocation of the marches and assured that “they are being financed, definitely by someone” and that “they are the ones who benefit from the chaos in the country.”
Mission Impossible
On January 24, during a press conference with foreign media, Boluarte had said that this is not a peaceful protest. “It is a violent action, generated by a group of radicals who have a political and economic agenda based on drug trafficking, illegal mining and smuggling,” he said.
The internationalist Farid Kahhat warned that the Foreign Ministry cannot clean up the image of what is dirty. “The government has committed violations of international humanitarian law. There is no way for the Foreign Ministry to prove that this does not exist. The problem is not the foreign ministry but the government, ”he stressed.
He explained that the image of the country can be improved when the problems do not derive from the facts but from a misinterpretation of them. “But here they clearly derive from the facts, from what the government does,” he said, adding that, in the midst of the crisis and the protest, various “lies” have been told, such as that there was smuggling of dum dum bullets from Bolivia towards Peru and that “they have short legs”, especially before the foreign media.
“She has enough decorum not to repeat official falsehoods, in a context in which the press is going to ask her what proof she has. At the very least, the chancellor realizes that there is no way to sustain these falsehoods in front of the international press,” Kahhat said.
He described as “unhappy” that Gervasi assures that evidence will be found, regarding something for which there is no evidence (illegal financing of protests).
In short, he said that this contradiction between Gervasi and Boluarte further delegitimizes the president, internationally.
delegitimization
The internationalist Luciana Cumpa also agreed that this contradiction between Gervasi and Boluarte delegitimizes the justification they give for disproportionate use of force in the protests. She regretted that Boluarte’s speech “is not supported by factual issues,” and that the government needs an internal and international political gesture that implies investigative evidence on the deceased and the alleged illegal financing of the marches.
“There is this contradiction of the two highest authorities that conduct foreign policy and again a detriment to the international projection of the country is generated,” he said.
He indicated that “continuing with this narrative, by criminalizing protests, violating human rights, is positioning us as a country that has left the democratic landscape.”
He stressed that this humanitarian and political crisis is affecting economic cooperation in multilateral, economic-financial spaces.
The data
Precision. Gervasi said that “ongoing investigations will provide evidence regarding the origin of the funds that are financing violent groups that travel through different areas of the country.” He assures that they will closely follow the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The word
Farid Kahhat, internationalist
“At the very least, the chancellor realizes that there is no way to sustain these falsehoods in front of the press.”
