In the recording broadcast by the Sunday newspaper “Panorama”, you can see the coordination between Castillo and the then Prime Minister. This, in the moments before the presidential message in which she carried out the coup d’état on December 7.
This Sunday, March 5, the “Panorama” program released a series of images that show the moments before the message to the nation that Pedro Castillo gave on December 7, 2022, through which he carried out a failed attempt to coup d’état, which led to his dismissal and subsequent imprisonment.
In the recently revealed footage, Castillo can be seen coordinating with the TV Peru team. One of the most striking moments in the video is the moment in which the former president discusses with the then Prime Minister Betssy Chávez about the nature of the announcement that he was going to make.
“She has to warn that it is a message to the nation, that she say it,” Castillo told Chávez, referring to the message that the former head of the PCM had to pass on to the journalist Cintya Malpartida. Until then, it was thought that it would be a possible interview.
Said instruction was replicated by Betssy Chávez to the cameraman who was present at the Executive headquarters to record Pedro Castillo’s message.
Likewise, Pedro Castillo was impatient at the delay in the start of his speech.
“Delay, why delay? The tie? What’s the problem?” Castillo asked when a Palacio collaborator fitted him with the presidential sash.
It should be mentioned that, contrary to the hypotheses presented by the defenders of the former president, at no time is it observed that he has been under any duress or under the influence of any substance.
A blow without force
It should be remembered that Pedro Castillo has been held, since December 2022, in the Barbadillo prison, a prison space set up for the confinement of ex-presidents. While his case is being studied by the authorities, the former president has a preventive detention order for a period of 18 months.
Meanwhile, his closest family is in asylum in Mexico, under the protection of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, one of the international allies of the former head of state, a decision that has caused the rupture of diplomatic relations between Peru and Mexico.
Recently, when questioned about his role in the failed coup d’état by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress, Pedro Castillo refrained from answering on the grounds that “it was a trick question.”
