U.S. Embassy in Peru rejects rumors of alleged intervention

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After learning of speculations regarding a request for intervention by the U.S. government to seek an end to the political crisis in Peru, the U.S. embassy emphatically expressed its rejection of this assumption.

“The United States supports democratic institutions and rejects allegations that the U.S. government is seeking to intervene in any way in Peru. We support the Peruvian people and work shoulder to shoulder with their elected representatives,” reads the Tweet published by the official account of the embassy.

On the other hand, also through social networks, the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the U.S. government “ratified its support to our government in its efforts to preserve the state and democratic institutionality”.

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“The Foreign Ministry has received from the government of the United States the assurances that this country does not participate in any activity destabilizing the democratic order in Peru”, it indicated.

QUESTIONED DECLARATIONS

The discussion on the alleged intervention began when the declarations of the former presidential candidate, Hernando de Soto, were published in the program “Edición Especial” of Willax, which is hosted by Diego Acuña.

“Two and a half months ago, I started a tour to several countries abroad. As you know, I am a well-known Peruvian abroad. The result is that I have been to the White House, I have been to the National Security Council, I have been the people of Congress, with Senator Ted Cruz who came second to (Donald) Trump for the elections and is now vice chairman of the Senate International Relations and Anti-Terrorism Committee,” de Soto mentioned at the beginning of his speech.

In addition, he mentioned that he would meet with Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who chairs the U.S. Congress committee mentioned by the former candidate. “At the same time, I have gone to see the heads of the different international organizations that deal with Peru to begin to organize, since among Peruvians we do not understand each other, that among people from abroad to begin to settle whether this is a legitimate government or not.”

“From that moment on, our arguments will be, in the first place, the president will have the opportunity to defend himself, and on the other hand, we will not be able to go in and simply say, listen, Sir, here I have a psychiatric certificate that the president needs three Valium a day and should be removed”.

“That is not a strong argument, that is why we are going to add a real missile to the vacancy argument, which is that this country, by ignoring the Constitution, by being superficial in its legal analysis, we are allowing ourselves to be led by the nose. It has taken time to do all this, and I am still traveling around Europe and the European market. I have two appointments with two European Heads of State to start putting this in the big court because we are between yes or no among Peruvians, which is fine, but it is not an atomic bomb, ” added de Soto.

Journalist Jonathan Castro revealed that the former member of the board of directors of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Rafael Rey Rey, was in the United States arranging meetings with legislators of that country to express his alarm against the government-led by President Pedro Castillo.

“While the motion of vacancy against President Castillo was being defined in Peru, Rafael Rey Rey has visited U.S. Congressmen Mark Green, Darren Soto, and Susan Wild. The reason: to express his concern for the government of Pedro Castillo”, reads the Tweet.