This January 13, the president Dina Boluarte appointed three new ministers after resignations in the offices for the almost half a hundred dead in the social protest. The replacement for the Interior was General (r) Vincent Romero Fernandez (67), known for being a former minister in the same portfolio as Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and director of the PNP between 2015 and 2017.
Once he became official in office, his graphic history recalled the participation he had in the 1990s dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori. In a video, he is located at the right hand of the first descendant of the man convicted of crimes against humanity, today’s politician Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi.
A uniformed Romero Fernández hands him papers printed with the face of the former dictator to Keiko so that she, smiling, gives them to each one of the attendees, kiss on the cheek through.
Resignation of his predecessor, Víctor Rojas
Sources of this media They announced that Rojas would leave the post hours before it was made official. His days as manager of the Interior office were questioned by multiple sectors due to the repression of the National Police of Peru against the southerners.
For example, left-wing groups such as Perú Libre, Perú Bicentenario, Cambio Democrático and Bloque Magisterial filed a motion for interpellation against him. just the day that Rojas resigned from office.
That same January 13 was summoned to the Justice and Human Rights Commission of Congress to account for the circumstances of the deaths, injuries and arrests in the protests carried out at the national level.
