00:00And in Peru, an audio recording involving the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister has created tension within the executive branch,
00:06and Congress is already gathering signatures to remove them from office.
00:10Our colleague Ramiro Angulo with the details.
00:15The appearance of a new audio recording in which Justice Minister Juan José Santibánez requests the transfer to another prison of a dangerous criminal,
00:24whom he was legally advising, has once again called into question his suitability for the position.
00:30It is incredible, but the country's illegal economy is based on extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking, illegal mining logging,
00:40and human trafficking has legal arms through a group of lawyers who are now co-governing with the president.
00:45In other words, they have penetrated the institutions, not only the bad police, the bad officers, the bad soldiers,
00:51and the high command of the armed forces, but they are also penetrating the executive branch.
00:56As the audio says, the families are now going and knocking on the door of the ministry to claim what they have paid for.
01:03In the audio recording, he asks the then Minister of Justice and now Prime Minister Eduardo Arena
01:16to favour the convicted former police officer Marcelo Solu Roses, accused of being the armed wing of the Los Polpos gang,
01:23a fact that has lead to a motion of censure to remove both from office.
01:27If it is indeed his voice, and if he has made those announcements, if those conversations are real,
01:37he could have committed the crime of influence peddling,
01:39for which it is not required that the influence invoked be real,
01:45it is sufficient that the invocation of influence be made for the crime to have been committed.
01:49Therefore, all that remains to be done here is to conduct an expert analysis of the audio recordings
01:54and confirm that it is the voice of Senevanes, in which case he will have committed the crime without a dote.
01:59Senevanes was criticized as Minister of the Interior for not combating insecurity,
02:11but he also attacks the press, and is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office
02:16for blocking investigations against Dana Baluartek and her brother Nicanor.
02:24They are also negotiating the possibility of an amnesty I believe,
02:27and this is a hypothesis for the President of the Republic,
02:30with regard to the events of the 2020 and 2023-er,
02:36it seems to me that they are running out of time.
02:38They have eight months to achieve this amnesty in this Congress,
02:41before the new Congress is installed.
02:44And thus the President will be able to go home peacefully
02:46knowing that she will not be prosecuted for the deaths that occurred during the protests.
02:50For former Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez,
02:59Prime Minister Arana's attitude in saying that he does not recognize himself in the audio recording
03:04demonstrates his political audacity.
03:06The reaction of the person involved, Mr. Arana, President of the Council of Ministers,
03:15seems to me to be extremely cynical and somewhat expressive of political audacity,
03:19because he does not deny that it is his voice.
03:26He does not deny the content of the conversations,
03:30he simply says that it is up to the judiciary to determine that a Prime Minister is the highest authority.
03:37This is really scandalous and serious,
03:38but I believe he has this reaction because he feels impunity and protection.
03:42For those interviewed, the more than 30 signatures on the censorship against Santivanez
03:57demonstrate the delicacy of the case, and although they feel protected,
04:01it is difficult to predict whether any of them will be removed next week after the debate.
04:05From Lima, to Telesur, Ramiro Angulo Maquiavelo.
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