Hernando de Soto acknowledges that he was vaccinated in the US 5:27
(CNN Spanish) -
Fernando del Rincón asked the Peruvian presidential candidate Hernando de Soto, from the Avanza País party, if he had been vaccinated against covid-19 in the United States.
De Soto acknowledged that he had been vaccinated in that country, but refused to reveal in what state.
This was the complete exchange of Del Rincón and de Soto in Conclusions:
Fernando del Rincón: Let me fully enter into a controversy that has caught my attention and I would like to understand it, because after the "vaccinate", I had to do practically the coverage and research with the team of what was happening in Peru, with vaccines and all this pathetic scandal, by the way, I learn that you have already been vaccinated and maybe vaccinated in the United States. This is correct?
Hernando de Soto: That is correct.
Fernando del Rincón: You have been vaccinated in the United States and I ask you, are you a US citizen, a resident or something else?
Hernando de Soto: No, not me, I am a resident of Peru and I was vaccinated in a state where residency is not required.
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Fernando del Rincón: Where residence is not required ... You had stated that you would have been offered precisely this opportunity. Correct? Who offers it to you?
Hernando de Soto:
No, they offer me that… as I have a contract with different heads of state in different countries, they offered me that privilege and I refused.
At times when I believed that the proposal that we had made to our government could be implemented.
Sorry, to us to be able to reach our government.
As it did not happen and I began to rise in the polls and I no longer met with five people on the street, but with thousands, I realized that I could be infected or I could infect mine.
At that time, through a contact in the United States, I found out that I was offered, through private channels, the possibility of being vaccinated.
And I did go to the United States in a state that does not require residency and I got vaccinated.
Fernando del Rincón: Señor de Soto, what state was it in?
Hernando de Soto:
You say vaccinate… I have not taken their quota from any Peruvian (inaudible) I have gone to the United States, I have paid for my plane ticket and I was vaccinated and I have announced it to all Peruvians.
Fernando del Rincón: Yes, what state did you go to, Señor de Soto?
Hernando de Soto:
Do you know?
Hey, I don't think I have an obligation to answer that, because from what I see from your question, since it is the initial meeting, I would not want to harm anyone who has helped me.
Fernando del Rincón: No, no, of course you don't have to answer any of the questions I ask you. I have the right to do them. On a matter of transparency, with something to do with the vaccine, which has to do with coming to the United States to get vaccinated when the issue of vaccine tourists or those who only come only tourists has been strongly criticized in this country. to get vaccinated. That's why I asked him. And for the sake of transparency, right? Of course. To know in what state. But if you don't want to answer me, you don't have to. You don't have to. I say it is a matter of transparency. And well, if there is nothing wrong, why not say so? You will not say the name of the person who offered you the vaccine.
Hernando de Soto:
Let's talk about transparency.
If your order of ethics is that one should announce before getting vaccinated, it is not true, then I can, now that I know "the rules of the game", the rules of the game, I could tell you when is my next colonoscopy, endoscopy and id if i have any prostate problem i can do that.
What happened is that when in Peru they asked me if I had been vaccinated, I immediately answered yes, there has been no secret, there has been no lack of transparency.
Fernando del Rincón: Well, there is a lack of transparency when he does not tell me the state in which he was vaccinated, but that is reserved and it seems to me that the comparison with a colonoscopy issue, excuse me, Mr. de Soto, let's be serious, it has nothing to do with a pandemic, it has nothing to do with vaccines that have not reached Peru. It has nothing to do with people who have not been vaccinated here in the United States. Anyway, it's completely separate, so I leave it there. If you don't want to talk about it, don't talk about it. Seem right.
Hernando de Soto:
And if it is the beginning of your investigation, then it seems highly suspicious to me.
At one point, when I am second or first in the circuits, you start with a question in which I have a private right, it does not violate any law and I have no obligation to indicate where it was done at the given moment.
Fernando del Rincón: Señor de Soto, why do you think this is suspicious? Can't I ask you about those things that generated doubt or that generate attention? It generates a lot of attention for me. My parents were visiting here in Florida. You can never take them to vaccinate because they had no right. It strikes me. I want to ask. And does it seem suspicious to you? That is, if I don't ask you what you like, is it suspicious that I don't ask you what you want me to ask or how?
Hernando de Soto:
No, I'll tell you, in Florida you have to be a resident.
I was a state in which you do not have to be a resident and of course, I believe that I have the right to advertise in a public program to people who have been able to be kind to me and it is simply a matter of the right to privacy, which I understand is one of the things that prevail in the United States, unlike in Latin America.
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