In Peru, the twisting of facts, falsification of the narrative and violence that occurred in Bolivia is being repeated

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Pedro Castillo, as President of Peru, perpetrated this past 7th of December a coup d’état. He dissolved Congress, the Judicial Branch, the Constitutional Tribunal, and the Prosecutors’ Office in order to govern by legal decrees and call for a Constituent Assembly, but he failed because Congress ousted him so that a constitutional succession could occur and Castillo was arrested and legally charged. This true fact, with the entire world as witness, is being supplanted with the fallacy of presenting Castillo as a victim to justify the conspiracy and violence, repeating the narrative that was imposed in Bolivia to cover-up the crimes of Evo Morales and his regime.

A flagrant or in-fraganti crime “is that in which the criminal is caught while committing the crime, when the criminal is persecuted and detained and is deprived of the possibility of continuing the execution of the crime, the attempted crime, or its commission is frustrated.” In other words, “at the precise same moment the crime is being committed without the possibility for the perpetrator to escape.” The flagrancy of the crime “is so evident that it does not need proof,” because the facts that make it flagrant are more than ample proof.

Pedro Castillo’s actions as proclaimed in his 9-minute and 57-seconds speech, in which he proclaimed himself a dictator, and his frustrated escape to Mexico’s embassy in Lima -as confirmed by the Mexican government- are crimes addressed in the constitution, are defined in the penal code, and make up a flagrant crime.

Twenty-first Century Socialism or Castrochavism, has quickly propounded a counterfeited narrative that consists of presenting Pedro Castillo as a victim of a coup d’état and they have done this through a so-called “Joint Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico Communique on the Situation of Peru” treating Castillo on the 12th of December as “President” and denouncing that “from the day of his election he was a victim of antidemocratic harassment in violation of Article 23 of the American Convention on Human Rights…”

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico have started counterfeiting the truth in order to incite and sustain violence in Peru. The local operators went from supporting the Executive’s void to manipulate the falsehood of the illegality of the presidential succession, ignoring the constitutionally appointed president, demanding a Constituent Assembly, looking for alibis for Castillo, generating violence in search of fatal victims in order to use them.

Dictator Nicolas Maduro denounced “the oligarchic elites are the ones who do not allow for a simple elementary school teacher to ascend to Peru’s presidency and try to govern for the people.” Gathered in Cuba, dictators Diaz-Canel, Luis Arce, Daniel Ortega, and Nicolas Maduro and heads of State from the Caribbean asked “Peruvian politicians for sanity and good common sense” affirming that Castillo “was a victim of his adversaries from the Right…”

Following almost 14 years of dictatorship, Evo Morales in the elections of 2019 committed flagrant crimes of electoral fraud, counterfeiting of voters’ registry, and others. Faced with a civil and popular resistance for the flagrancy of the crimes he, along with his Vice President voluntarily resigned, sought refuge in the coca growing region of Bolivia, and Congress under the total and absolute control of Morales, accepted their resignation and appointed Senator Jeanine Añez, who was in the line of succession of the Plurinational State imposed by Morales, as president. As his first act to flaunt his impunity, an airplane from the Mexican Air Force sent by Lopez Obrador took Morales to Mexico where he was proclaimed as “the ousted president, victim of a coup d’état.”

Following frequent visits to Cuba, they established Evo Morales in Argentina under Fernadez/Kirchner from where they continued promoting and funding their conspiracy and violence in Bolivia. Morales was recorded giving personal instructions for blockading roadways and other crimes to besiege Bolivian cities, massacres at Senkata and Sacaba with dozens of dead. The government that was supposed to be of transition turned out to be of dictatorial continuity and without restoring neither the Republic, nor democracy, it colluded in the new electoral fraud of 2020 that took Luis Arce, Morales’ minister and guarantor of impunity and continuity, to power.

The counterfeited narrative that Evo Morales resigned in 2019 as a victim of a coup d’état was made official, the regime started several legal prosecutions and sentenced the former president and dozens of innocent victims to 10-year jail sentences for the only one thing they did not do and never happened, a coup d’état.

Castrochavism now repeats in Peru the counterfeiting of the narrative and the extreme violence that gave them back the dictator, the impunity, and the narco-State in Bolivia. Without any doubts, their plan is to give Castillo asylum or liberate him, turn him into a victim instead of the culprit of a coup d’état, while they blockade roadways and kill, restore him and/or under his banner convene a Constituent Assembly to organize their dictatorship as a Plurinational State.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas