The mission of the OAS (Organization of American States), who arrives tomorrow Sunday the 20th to assess the political crisis in our country, He is preparing meetings with the National Prosecutor, Patricia Benavides, who is investigating President Pedro Castillo for alleged acts of corruption; the Ombudsman, Eliana Revollar; and Congressman Edward Málaga, promoter of a third vacancy attempt against the president, among critics of the Government.
The appointment with Benavides did not yet have a date at the time of closing this note, but it had been confirmed that this meeting would take place, according to sources from the Prosecutor’s Office. “It will be the OAS that defines and reports the day and time”they commented.
The mission contacted Benavides to include a meeting with her in his visit to Peru after questions about the possibility of avoiding it, as shown by an agenda attributed to the group, but which the OAS warned was false.
In addition, the mission has scheduled a meeting with congressman Edward Malagawhich is preparing a third vacancy request against Castillo in Parliament, which has not yet been presented, and other legislators opposed to the Government.
The mission summoned Málaga and the block of non-grouped congressmen to attend the meeting with this high-level group on Tuesday the 22nd at one in the afternoon, at a Swissôtel facility in the San Isidro district of Lima.
The quote has been included in response to a request from Malaga.
“We welcome the positive response of the OAS to meet on Tuesday the 22nd and present our position on the political crisis, the fallacy of the coup d’état and the support of the third vacancy motion as a step prior to new general elections with minimal reforms,” said the legislator on Twitter.
The OAS special delegation will also meet with the Ombudsman, Eliana Revollar. The appointment with her is scheduled for Tuesday the 22nd.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the international mission will have working meetings “with various institutions and actors of national affairs” two days, Monday 21 and Tuesday 22, in Lima.
Likewise, he warned that “at the request of the OAS, the Foreign Ministry was in charge of transmitting the request for the meetings with the heads of the three branches of government, with the management of the agenda being the exclusive competence of the organization.”
The OAS mission is made up of the foreign ministers of Argentina, Santiago Cafiero; from Belize, Eamon Courtenay; from Costa Rica, Arnaldo André; from Ecuador, Juan Carlos Holguin; from Guatemala, Mario Adolfo Búcaro; from Paraguay, Julio César Arriola; the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Laura Gil; and the representative of the OAS General Secretariat, spokesperson for the Group and former Foreign Minister of Paraguay Eladio Loizaga.
The group must make a report and present it to the OAS Permanent Council. in Washington DC, in the United States.
Fiscal. Benavides will inform Castillo about his inquiry. Photo: diffusion
The key
Charge. The OAS mission, which is due to arrive tomorrow and leave on Wednesday the 23rd, was commissioned to analyze our political crisis when the Democratic Charter Inter-American, mechanism to defend democracy against threats, in the Permanent Council.
