The former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, has praised this Thursday the «courage and bravery» of the members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) when denouncing in its last summit in Buenos Aires the «systematic violations of Human Rights» committed in the Andean nation.
Castillo has written a letter in which he thanked the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro; the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro; and the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Orbador, for their «firmness» in condemning the «dictatorship» in Peru, their «arbitrary detention» and for «demanding constitutional guarantees».
In the same vein, the letter -published by the former president in his official Twitter profile- also thanks the Argentine, Cuban, Bolivian, Chilean and Venezuelan leaders for their «concern» about the «grave situation» that the Andean nation is going through.
On the other hand, Castillo has denounced the «violations» against Human Rights committed by the «military dictatorship» of the current Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte. The response of the authorities to the anti-government demonstrations has already claimed about 60 lives and left more than 1,200 injured, according to the former president.
«I beg you to raise your voice in all international forums, and do not allow a genuine space of Latin American integration to cohabit with the current anti-democratic political regime that today usurps power in Peru», said Castillo, calling on CELAC member countries.
Finally, the former Peruvian president showed his support for the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, who was banned from entering the country by the current Peruvian authorities. «Evo has been a consistent political leader in his defense of democracy and denounces the fascist government of Dina Boluarte», Castillo stressed.
The former Peruvian president has written this missive from the Barbadillo penitentiary center, where he is preventively imprisoned for his attempt to dissolve the Parliament and declare a government of exception at the beginning of December, in a maneuver branded as a «coup d’état» by the Peruvian authorities.
From that moment, thousands of supporters of the former president took to the streets of Peru to demand the calling of new elections and the resignation of Boluarte, until then Castillo’s «number two» and who ascended to the Presidency after his arrest.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
