Protected by the Government or not, the truth is that Vladimir Cerronleader of Peru Libre, remains a fugitive from justice. Until now, his absence from prison, where he should serve the three years and six months ordered by the Judiciaryhas been justified in many ways by the authorities on duty (that is, the four Ministers of the Interior who have paraded since their clandestinity was noticed).
From having “state-of-the-art technology” to hide its location to using “VPN”, all have been ways that the Mininter owners found to escape the responsibility of capturing the investigated founder of the pencil party.
To these justifications is added the one made by the PNP Commander General, Victor Zanabriawho said that Cerrón “has enough skills” to flee from justice.
“He is a person who has enough skills to be able to evade some operations that we have carried out, but we trust that the development of the work we are doing and also the increase in the reward that is being given will allow us to capture him in a few days and thus take away a great questioning that does not allow us to advance in other important tasks, such as crime,” he said.
Vladimir Cerrón celebrated remaining underground for a year
Meanwhile, Vladimir Cerron He celebrated having completed a year in hiding. Of course, the statement came from his official X account, a platform on which he has remained active mocking the authorities or issuing political opinions.
“I greet the Peru Libre party and the people, upon completing a year of resistance, discipline and loyalty, values that guarantee victory on the road to socialism,” he wrote.
In the midst of his clandestinity, the leader of Peru Libre has presented two habeas corpus appeals before the Constitutional Court and an appeal admitted by the Supreme Court. Furthermore, through his lawyer, he has requested the suspension of the execution of his effective prison sentence. At the same time, he has carried out an intense media defense on his social media account, with more than 3,800 interactions related to current affairs and criticism of his opponents, all while staying out of the reach of the authorities.
Boluarte government and its attempts to capture Cerrón
The former Minister of the Interior, Wilfredo Pedraza, declared for La República thatthe main failure of the PNPis the making of early capture announcements. “This causes expectations and no results, which generates a negative political cost,” he said.
The announcement that a certain place has been surrounded, that they know where it is or that it is only a matter of hours before they are captured, would be damaging to the purpose of capture. “Announce loud operations with many vehiclesmany police officers, patrolmen, among others; “Those types of actions that seem to be oriented towards capture, in reality they are not and create discredit for the government,” explained Pedraza and then added: “I have the impression that strictly speaking (the PNP) does not know where it is. “.
Likewise, he referred to the speculation ofsupport of the Boluarte Government towards Vladimir Cerrón: “The only way to rule out the existence of said support is to demonstrate that the police group created to capture him is a team that has the tools to work. If that is not the case, it is reasonable to assume that there is no will.”
