The latest achievement of the left is to impose the idea that crime is the fault of the right. That the president and the parties that support him supported “pro-crime laws.” As if hitmen were a problem of law and not of police intelligence or judicial corruption. Thus, the progressive left has taken away from the right the issue of citizen security, perhaps its natural flag and the most important problem of the country. And with that flag he could win the 2026 elections.
It is not about defending the aforementioned laws or Congress, perhaps the most unpopular institution. Experts continue to debate whether the laws are advantageous or not. But the underlying issue is that there is not a single piece of evidence (cause-effect relationship) that the enactment of these laws has directly increased crime figures.
This is how the right has lost the issue of citizen security, its best card to win the 2026 elections. And it had been losing it since 2024, when the left led the marches of transporters, cumbiamberos and winemakers against extortion. Few demands are as capitalist as asking to live in order to work. And yet, the radical left achieved the unthinkable: beating the right in its own court, taking over the strikes of informal businessmen who asked for a strong hand. The right ignored the entrepreneurs and demonized the apolitical protests, calling them “caviars.” The caviars would like to fill a square with businessmen. Incidentally, the right insisted for three long years in defending the most unpopular government in Peruvian history.
This is how the right gave the street to the left, handing over its flags of citizen security and popular capitalism. Two years later, the misnamed “procrime laws” are just the latest defeat of a streetless right, in every sense of the term. To cry to the river.
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