After the recent resignation of Rafael Lopez Aliaga To the mayor’s office of Lima, councilor Julio Gagó analyzed the role of the leader of Renovación Popular, of whose party he was a part. According to him, the management began with the enthusiasm of changing things in Metropolitan Lima; However, during its development, various promises were made, such as Caltrain trains and the Southern Expressway, that ended up being “half-truths or lies.”
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Gagó highlighted these two projects because they are the ones that have caused the most controversy due to the no planning and improvisation by the management of López Aliaga, who “prioritized his presidential aspiration.”
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The former official councilor ratified The Republic that the former mayor of Lima disguised the purchase and sale of the trains of the American company Caltrain as if it were a donation. That, he said, he denounced on November 13, 2024 during a session of the metropolitan council.
“The draft ordinance, which includes Caltrain documents, does not say donation but transaction and that It cost 30 million dollars, between the costs of importing the merchandise, insurance and transportation. Furthermore, there was no technical report on the status of the trains. Another controversial point is that Caltrain did not give guarantees or take responsibility for the damages caused during the transfer,” he stated.
In the end, despite the million-dollar expenses, between last July and August 90 wagons and 19 locomotives arrived at the port of Callao. However, All this rolling stock is stored, currently, in the workshop yard of the Monserrate station of the Ferrocarril del Centro and in the Parque de la Muralla, in Cercado.
“Time proved me right. The trains arrived and were not operational, and there was no adequate infrastructure for them to come into operation. Despite these deficiencies, they crushed the Government when it was their problem (the management of López Aliaga).. In my opinion, trains are a monument to shame”assured the metropolitan councilor.
unfinished works
Gagó also questioned that the former mayor has inaugurated an unfinished work that is not a Southern Expressway. “A project of these magnitudes is not built at level, as was done, because it has to be an expressway without traffic light crossings.” for vehicles to travel at 80 kilometers per hour. Although the desire was to reach the Panamericana Sur, it should not have been inaugurated in such an improvised way just for presidential ambitions,” he stated.
Councilor Ivone Tapia agrees with this, who considered that López Aliaga’s management was marked by a lack of planning, arrogance and lies. “Those have been their mistakes. On the highway Ramiro Prialé has recovered public spaces and has confiscated many properties,” he indicated.
He also regretted that some projects have started without files and others have even been inaugurated even though they were not finished. “What can we expect from a former mayor who did not believe in technical studies? Unfortunately, he entered the mayor’s office without experience in public management,” he said.
Tapia also criticized that López Aliaga had broken his word, even though he said that it was worth gold.. “After losing the 2021 presidential elections, he became mayor of Lima with the projection of being a presidential candidate in 2026, but he did it wrong,” he asserted.
And indeed. Last Saturday, The Republic carried out a review of the municipal government plan of the Popular Renewal leader and discovered that he left office, in his third year in office, without fulfilling 25 of the 105 promises he included in that presented document. In short, he did not fulfill almost a quarter of his written commitments.
