Pedro Castillo’s new chief of advisers was intervened three times for drunk driving

On April 17, President Pedro Castillo appointed the economist Luis Alberto Mendieta Gavirondo as his head of the Technical Cabinet. But far from choosing an impeccable professional, he has appointed a person who is a danger at the wheel.

Mendieta Gavirondo was intervened three times by the Police for driving while intoxicated. The first two occurred in 2013 and the last in 2015, according to the police reports to which he agreed. Peru21.

In the statement of January 12, 2013, it is realized that Mendieta was intervened in a breathalyzer operation that was carried out at block 4 of Berlin Street, in Miraflores. The official was then subjected to the expired air field test and tested positive for ingestion of alcoholic beverages.

The second intervention was in March of that year, also during an operation, but on Las Flores de Primavera avenue, in San Juan de Lurigancho. Castillo’s adviser today tested positive for alcohol consumption again.

The third intervention was in April 2015, when Mendieta was driving the black SanYang van -the same one used in the previous cases- through the block one of Uruguay Avenue, in Cercado de Lima, under the influence of alcohol.

However, they were not the only traffic offenses incurred by the new head of the technical Cabinet. According to the Lima Tax Administration Service (SAT), he was also fined four times: once for not respecting traffic signals, another for using the horn unnecessarily, the next for driving without both hands on the wheel, and the last infraction of the regulation earned him a ballot for S / 70. All imposed violations were cancelled.

The politician

Luis Mendieta came to the Executive to take the place of Wilson Pretel, his predecessor in office who is involved in the “Cabinet in the Shadows” case. But Mendieta is no stranger to politics. In the general elections of 2006 he applied to be a representative before the Andean Parliament under the ranks of the Unión por el Perú (UPP) party, without obtaining his mission.

According to the Registry of Political Organizations (ROP) of the National Elections Jury (JNE), the 65-year-old economist was also a member of the Nationalist Party from March 2009 to 2017.