Pedro Castillo and Dino Baluarte

Two years after the political suicide of Pedro Castillo, which suddenly installed Dina Baluarte as president, the president uttered a phrase that well describes her two years in government and her personality: “That day we stood firm because we knew that the homeland came first . “We defended our country like soldiers against this coup d’état.”

It would have been good if Baluarte had stood his ground when corruption cases began to emerge in the government of Pedro Castillo, who he doesn’t seem to remember being one of his most famous figures. He often preferred silence from the ministerial chair, which cost thirty thousand soles a month.

One of the few times he publicly, if not the only, openly defended his president was, paradoxically, on December 7, 2021, when Congress threatened to leave Pedro Castillo. “Who went in front of the press to say that my loyalty to President Pedro Castillo is bulletproof? “If they release the president, I will go with the president,” he said that day in Juliaca, one of Castile’s strongholds.

In general, the then minister and vice president decided to keep their profile in the underground. He never raised his voice as his president’s outrage grew more public and crude.

The scandal with the house of Sarrateo, the thefts in the Ministry of Transport, the shadow cabinet under the leadership of Alejandro Sánchez, the bribes from the Garden of Horus to Salatiel Maruf, and Baluarte, in silence, remained a minister.

She did not resign until November 25, 2022, coincidentally when Castillo was about to leave office and only 12 days before the failed coup that brought her to the presidency.

“We stood firm that day…” Boluarte said. His short and tortuous political history, however, gives us plenty of reason to question this firmness.

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