Scandalous and outrageous. A series of photographs broadcast exclusively by the Sunday newspaper Cuarto Poder shows the congresswoman Lucinda Vasquez receiving a pedicure by his own advisor Edwars Rengifo Pezo in his parliamentary office.
Vasquez was elected by the San Martín region and is today a member of the Together for Peru – Magisterial Block bench,
The grotesque images, taken on November 6, 2024 in office 103 of the Santos Atahualpa building, show the parliamentarian reclining on a sofa, talking on the phone, while her advisor, with a Congress card around her neck, cuts her toenails with a metal nail clipper.
Asked by the reporter of the aforementioned program, Vásquez – who came to the Legislature with Perú Libe – avoided clarifying the facts: “I can’t answer you.”
At another time about the humiliating act, he said: “I cut them off.” And she asked the journalist from América Televisión to let her walk.
“I don’t force anyone,” babbling.
A few days after that scene, between November 11 and 15, 2024, Rengifo Pezo accompanied the congresswoman on a representation trip financed with State resources.
THEY EVEN MAKE HIM BREAKFAST
The report also showed photographs of the office’s advisor II, Willer Sajami Collantes, preparing breakfast at the congresswoman’s house, in Lima, during her workday.
The record was taken on January 19, 2023, at 9:03 am, the date when Congress was in recess, but workers continued to receive their full salary.
In the photographs, Sajami appears blending juice, shelling eggs and serving dishes under the supervision of the parliamentarian’s husband, Luis Villacorta Arce. Questioned by the press, the advisor remained silent.
Vásquez, a primary school teacher by profession, had already been questioned for hiring relatives in her office, including Edward Rengifo himself, her great-nephew.
Another figure that appears in Congresswoman Lucinda Vásquez’s closest circle is Luis Llaguento Heredia, assistant in her parliamentary office. In one of the photographs revealed by Cuarto Poder, he is seen sharing lunch in a restaurant in front of Congress with the legislator’s husband, Luis Villacorta, and Edwars Rengifo Pezo.
Shortly after, Llaguento was searched in the kitchen, ladle in hand and with banana slices ready to fry, performing domestic tasks unrelated to his public function.
The advisors refused to explain the program.
AN AFRONT TO THE INSTITUTION
The former senior officer of Congress, José Cevasco, considered the event an affront to the institution: “If I don’t see it, I don’t believe it. What we have seen looks like a spa inside Congress. It is the most expensive pedicure in the history of Peru,” he told Cuarto Poder.
A journalistic report from the same medium, issued on May 11, 2025, revealed that the legislator hired three family members as trusted personnel in her congressional office. Likewise, one of them would have presented himself as Parliament staff before public institutions.
POLITICAL CAREER
Lucinda Vásquez was born on August 24, 1958 in Buenos Aires, province of Picota (San Martín). He trained as a teacher at the Tarapoto Pedagogical Institute and obtained his degree in Primary Education at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
For almost thirty years he taught at the Juan Jiménez Pimentel Educational Institution, where he also began his union activity. He was a leader of SUTE San Martín and Fenateperú, a union headed by Pedro Castillo, with whom he shared the 2017 teacher strike.
He began his political career in the Sanmartiniense Regional Front (2005–2011) and then joined the Peruvian Nationalist Party, where he remained until 2019. In the 2021 elections, he ran for Congress for Perú Libre, with number 2 on the list for San Martín, and obtained 8,778 valid votes.
ROSPLIGIOSI: “REPUBLICABLE”
The president of Congress, Fernando Rospigliosi, harshly questioned the legislator this Monday.
“What has happened is reprehensible. Really, those types of things are worthy of a lot of criticism. I believe that this should not happen in Congress and that people who commit those types of acts should be sanctioned,” he told RPP.
And he added: “I hope that the Ethics Commission takes all necessary measures to sanction this congresswoman after, naturally, the investigations. It is a humiliation for the workers of Congress.”
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