when the president peter castle He changed the cabinet of former Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez and appointed Congressman from Democratic Peru Héctor Valer as her successor. he also swore in a new Minister of Culture: Alejandro Salas. After Valer’s departure, the president has ratified Salas in this new ministerial cabinet led by Hannibal Torresdespite the fact that the head of the Mincul was a regular critic of the left during the electoral campaign.
The minister seems to have changed the discourse he professed on Twitter about the left, since before he responded to posts with phrases like “one less red is hope for Peru.”
Now, When asked about the left, he said that it is “an absolutely respectable ideology, that has been part of the history of world politics and will continue to be a part.”
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“I don’t go into culture Ministry to do politics, to carry an ideology, I go in to carry it forward, so that the government policy goes forward. So, I think we live in a polarized state where even now, those of us who want to help the country, try to divide us”, he pointed out.
change of speech
Alexander Salas He has pointed out that his publications were taken out of context and that he has never ‘terrified’ anyone, since everything was based on a debate of ideas.
“I reject any type of expression that is addressed to a Peruvian to terrify him, in a categorical way. What they have done is decontextualize an interaction on Twitter that I had, not even a position, “he declared for La República.
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When asked about the phrase “the left should not exist, the left ends when other people’s money ends” that he published, Salas said that it was a phrase from the British politician Margaret Thatcher, and that it was not a personal position. In addition, according to his testimony, he spread that sentence in response to a journalist who consulted for statements that identify the right and the left, and he wanted to exemplify with that expression.
“Those are not my postures, they are interactions answering questions. So, to prevent my interactions from being decontextualized since 2010, I decide to close my Twitter because I receive a furious attack,” said Salas.
However, Thatcher’s original sentence to which he refers is “Socialism fails when they run out of money…from others”, which differs greatly from his publication. Likewise, when viewing the tweet, it can be verified that the aforementioned journalist refers to another topic, not the one mentioned by the Mincul headline.
Twitter post. Photo: Capture
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Salas criticized the “communist position” of De Soto and Mendoza
In that line, at culture minister He was asked about the publication in which he mentions former presidential candidate Hernando de Soto and former Executive candidate Verónika Mendoza, whom he associated with communism.
“His team is also made up of people from Movadef, the legal arm of the Shining Path, that is what he (Hernando de Soto) called in his work The New Path a communist government wanting to disguise itself as liberal, as dangerous for the country as Verónika Mendoza”, he mentioned in a tweet.
Publication of the Minister of Culture. Photo: Capture
Given this, the official explained that he interacted with the government plan published by Hernando de Soto, who, according to Salas, had stated that he was going to work on the economic part, but that “next to him there were people who were leaders of Movadef.”
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“So, what I put on Twitter was to define: if you want a neoliberal economic policy or work with Movadef. And for just mentioning that topic they call me terruqueador “, narrowed down
Regarding what Mendoza said, he confirmed that he was concerned at the time about what the leader of New Peru was exposing.
Old homophobic expressions do not represent it today
In previous years, Salas Zegarra was against same-sex marriage and against the rights of the LGTBIQ+ community, because when a debate was opened on Twitter with opinions about civil unions, he replied: “Let them buy their goods jointly, don’t camouflage gay marriage.”
Twitter post. Photo: Capture
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However, he asserts that he no longer thinks that way because he has daughters, and in them he reflects “all the citizens who decide differently from what one is.”
“A person can evolve in his thinking. From me they have taken interactions from many years ago. I am the father of three girls and I am going to answer you this way: if one day one of my daughters decides to love in a different way, I am going to love her three times more, because I know we live in a country that would discriminate against them,” answered.
