Did you run out of Internet megabytes on your cell phone or what is the reason why you are not raising your voice in protest today?
The reaction that the congressmen from the majority of the left-wing parties and some politicians of that ideological line had, through their social networks, when the oil spill caused by Repsol occurred on January 15, 2022 in Ventanilla, Callao, has been diametrically different from the behavior they have been having these days with the ecocide caused by the state-owned company Petroperú on December 20 in Talara, Piura.
The silence of this sector of the left does not go unnoticed in the face of a tragedy of this magnitude. Perú21 reveals, through the posts they wrote in 2022 on their X accounts, the harsh criticism they made against Repsol at that time. Today, when a similar tragedy occurs, they maintain a strange silence.
This, despite the fact that this crude oil spill that occurred in the Piuran sea has caused, as the mayor of Talara, Sigifredo Zárate, stated yesterday, more than 400 affected families.
In January 2022, one of the first legislators who took out her megaphone to protest – through social networks – when the crude oil was spilled in Ventanilla was legislator Sigrid Bazán (see posts), who was elected wearing the T-shirt of the Together for Peru (JPP) party and today he is in the ranks of the Popular Democratic Bloc (BDP) bench, similar to Verónika Mendoza, leader of the Nuevo party Peru.
NARVÁEZ AND JPP CONNECTION
On January 20 of that year, five days after the events occurred, Bazán harshly criticized the Spanish oil company on his X account: “Repsol cannot wash its hands and unfortunately is not responding to this ecological catastrophe.”
Five days later, he asked for economic compensation for the victims, especially for the fishermen.
President of Petroperú, Alejandro Narváez, is a member of Together for Peru (JPP).
“Beyond receiving a severe fine, Repsol must compensate each and every one of the fishermen who today do not know when they will return to work,” he wrote.
However, in this tragedy that occurred in the Piuran sea, the Mendoza legislator, who today is a member of the Nuevo Perú party, has remained silent.
Is it perhaps because the president of Petroperú, Alejandro Narváez, is a member of the Together for Peru (JPP) party, the political group with which she was elected to occupy her seat in the Legislature?
What is striking is that Bazán would have met with his base in Piura on December 21, one day after the tragedy in that northern region became publicly known. However, as of the closing of this edition, no compensation has been paid for the more than 2,000 victims.
This information emerges from his post published that day, in which he wrote: “Together with the militancy of New Peru of Piura we continue to build a party: opening spaces where all voices are heard, collecting the problems of the region and strengthening participation of the companions!”
For her part, the spokesperson for the BDP caucus, Isabel Cortez, who like Bazán was elected with JPP, has also been silent about what happened in Talara.
His bench has only released a lukewarm video online in which it calls for an investigation. That’s all.
In the same way that Bazán, in 2022, criticized the Spanish firm with this publication: “Today we were with the team of the ‘Golondrina de la Tempestad’ association, the team of Serfor and the Parque de las Leyendas, who have been carrying out a hard work with more than 50 volunteers to save the wild birds affected by the Repsol spill.”
The president of JPP, Roberto Sánchez, also seems to have run out of Internet megabytes and without the strength to criticize the state oil company.
We must not forget that the head of Petroperú, Alejandro Narváez, is a member of JPP, the party chaired by Congressman Sánchez, since September 28, 2020.
In the 2021 elections, Narváez ran for Congress for the Apurímac region with that political group, but had no luck. On November 8, he was elected head of the state oil company, which has golden payrolls with generous salaries.
In 2022, another left-wing legislator who entered the Legislature with Peru Libre, but who today is not grouped and who could be the new leader of JPP, is Margot Palacios. She was the president of the commission investigating the Ventanilla oil spill, whose report unsuccessfully recommended investigating Prime Ministers Aníbal Torres and Mirtha Vásquez. But today he has not proposed creating a similar commission. Because? There is a double standard of morality on the left.
THE POSTS AGAINST REPSOL
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-(1), (2) and (3) Sigrid Bazán’s claim for the Ventanilla spill was loud, but today she remains silent.
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-(5) and (9) Cortez was also an inspector. His bench has only published one video.
(6) Palacios headed an investigative commission and remained active on the networks.
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(7) and (10) Verónika Mendoza, from Nuevo Perú, was very harsh with Repsol, but today she is not saying anything about what happened in Talara.
(11) Roberto Sánchez, from JPP, described the incident as a violation of human rights.
(12) The former Minister of Economy of the coup leader Pedro Castillo, Pedro Francke, asked for help for those affected by the Repsol case.
(13) Former congresswoman Rocío Silva-Santisteban described the Repsol tragedy as an ecocide. But with Petroperú…nothing.
I KNEW THAT
-Extraordinary session. The congresswoman of Fuerza Popular, Nilza Chacón, asked the president of the Energy Commission to summon the minister of the sector, Jorge Luis Montero, and the president of Repsol to explain the ecocide.
-Perú21 wrote to all the congressmen and politicians mentioned in this report. At the close of this edition, former congresswoman Rocío Silva Santistevan agreed that the OEFA and the Comptroller’s Office investigate this “ecocide.”
“Petroperú has been committing ecocides since 2014, and the OEFA has to impose a sanction, and the Comptroller’s Office has to investigate the financing of things,” he told this medium.
-The former Minister of Economy, Pedro Francke, sent this statement to this newspaper about ecocide. “My point of view is that the polluter pays, and must pay, be it a private or public company, mining or hydrocarbon company or another, with reparations to those affected and payment of fines proportional to the damage caused.”
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