Peruvian President Dina Boluarte swore in this Wednesday her new Prime Minister
Gustavo Adrianzén
, who was the representative to the Organization of American States in Washington.
Adrianzén,
a 57-year-old lawyer
, succeeds Alberto Otárola who resigned on Tuesday after an audio was released in which he was allegedly heard
favoring and offering work to a woman
, in a case pointed out by a group of legislators as
abuse of power to obtain intimate benefits
.
Alberto Otarola.
Photo: Sergio Lima / AFP
The new prime minister,
the third of Boluarte's administration
, is remembered because he was rebuked by an assistant in 2023 who told him that "he was lying" during a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that was evaluating the follow-up to the recommendations of a report on deaths during protests demanding Boluarte's resignation.
Adrianzén had stated that it was
“absolutely banished”
that Peru has a “systematic policy that violates human rights.”
As the woman next to an old man continued to indicate that Adrianzén was lying, he responded by raising his voice "they are the violent ones, they are the ones who caused the deaths,
they are the violent ones
."
The president
did not make any additional changes
and maintained the rest of the ministers of the cabinet that Otárola led since 2022.
Boluarte began his mandate on December 7, 2022,
succeeding Pedro Castillo
(2021-2022) who tried to dissolve Congress while he was being investigated for corruption but was removed by the Legislature itself.
After the beginning of his administration, protests occurred in the southern Andes for three months that left 49 civilians dead from firearms in direct confrontations with security forces.
With information from the Associated Press