Pedro Castillo, the president of Peru who was impeached this Wednesday (7), was detained by the National Police of Peru, according to the investigation of Lourival Sant’Anna, an analyst at the International CNN 🇧🇷
*in update
Who is Pedro Castillo?
Pedro Castillo Terrones is 51 years old and was born in the Cajamarca region. He has a master’s degree in educational psychology and, since 1995, he has been teaching in the province of Chota, in Cajamarca.
Until 2017, he was part of the Peru PossÃvel party, founded by former president Alejandro Toledo, who is imprisoned in the United States, after the Peruvian judiciary ordered, in 2017, preventive detention for alleged involvement in bribery with Odebrecht. The accusations were denied by Toledo.
Currently, Castillo is a member of Peru Livre and, as a trade unionist, he was one of the leaders in a teachers’ strike during the government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
The president was accused of being allied with members of the controversial organization Movadef, indicated by the police as the political arm of the Peruvian guerrilla group, something they deny.
In July 2021, Castillo was elected president after a lengthy poll. Even though he was an unknown candidate, he gained visibility in the debates. At the end of the race, he beat former Peruvian president Keiko Fujimori.
*published by Tiago Tortella, from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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