The sad and shared destiny of the former presidents of Peru

During the month of July, the streets of Peru are often decorated with school parades where students celebrate national holidays. Last year it did not take place

Because? Among the filtered audios that resulted in the dissolution of much of the Peruvian judicial system, the country's public and private schools have decided to "teach critical awareness" of their absence.

And is it The corruption variable runs through a country where the Odebrecht scandal, although because of its international scale, can be considered global, has had and maintains in Peru an impact of a magnitude greater than that of the rest. of the region.

By taking the judicial "luck" of those who were formerly its presidents, a fairly clear indicator is that we can see that since 1990, all former heads of state have been imprisoned, fleeing, detained or under investigation.

Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000): Although late in 2017, President Kuczynski granted her a humanitarian pardon, she was dismissed and the dictator is still imprisoned since September 2007 and sentenced to 25 years in prison for homicide with treason for the cases of La Cantuta and Barrios Altos. It also weighs on his silhouette the aggravated kidnapping offense, for the arrests of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer.

Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006): Toledo himself represents a curious case since he is a fugitive in the United States, even though he must be the only person in this situation to know where he lives and is arrested in his homeland. Home and released within hours.

Alan García (1985 – 1990 and 2006-2011): Yesterday, the judiciary ordered the arrest of the former leader of Aprista for money laundering and smuggling, as well as against his former secretary general of the presidency, Luis Nava, the former vice president of Petroperú, Miguel Atala, and his respective children (José Antonio Nava and Samir Atala). After shooting himself in the head, Garcia died around noon.

Ollanta Humala (2011-16): The first major player involved in the Odebrecht case. He was arrested with his wife Nadine Heredia, Marcelo Odebrecht said he would receive money to finance his presidential campaign. After months of detention, he was released but remains in investigation.

Pedro Kuczynski (2016 – 2018): Following the presidential spiral that corruption and Odebrecht have presented, it is the turn of PPK accused of receiving bribes during his tenure as Minister of the Economy in the period 2004-2006 as well as two companies on its behalf. Preliminarily arrested for 10 days, PPK was hospitalized urgently yesterday at the Anglo – American clinic as a result of a high blood pressure crisis.

Apart from these cases, we could also mention Francisco Morales Bermúdez, who, in accordance with the resolution received by Fujimori, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy for the kidnapping and murder of 42 young, including 20 Italo-Argentinian.

Although corruption appears as an endemic and cross-cutting phenomenon to Peruvian politics, the question space poses the question what will be the occasion of a political renewal that may occur when the country's senior management repeatedly deepens this situation?, resulting in an increasingly incredulous citizenship of the political system in all its spaces.