In a recent column from his seminar, journalist César Hildebrandt expressed his strong rejection of the registration of the former dictator Alberto Fujimori in the political party Popular Force, led by his daughter, Keiko Fujimori. Hildebrandt did not mince his words, expressing his discontent and concern for what he considers an attack against the dignity of Peru, and recounts the darkest times of the Government in which irregularities and acts of cover-up were deployed by the former president in broad daylight and amidst deception.
“You have to hate a lot Peru to give a new welcome to Alberto Fujimori. “You have to deeply despise the country of Grau and Vallejo to wish for the return of the man who had to be extradited from Chile,” Hildebrandt said last Friday in his weekly column; where he questions the intentions behind Fujimori’s possible return to politics.
For the journalist, “Fujimori was the absolute depravity of power and politics”Therefore, the only thing that the figure of the former head of state now symbolizes, now investigated for crimes against humanity, is “the synthesis of national and republican failure.” According to Hildebrandt, Fujimori’s government represented a “cemetery of dreams” that sought to build a country based on law and institutions.
“And now it returns, at the hands of the daughter who betrayed her incapacitated mother and replaced her as first lady while receiving $10,000 a month from Montesinos.”Hildebrandt recalled; emphasizing the criminal baggage of which the Fuerza Popular leader is accused. For Hildebrandt, Keiko Fujimori is a continuum in what he considers corrupt and unfair practices. “Fujimori returns hand in hand with the party that controls the Congress of criminals and supports the poor devil who goes to the Palace to pretend that she signs some papers,” he insisted.
But the journalist’s criticism also has to do with the structural crisis of the State that has been experienced for more than five years, in which it began to be normalized that the country’s politics do not punish corruption or crimes of the past. “Alberto Fujimori has been registered in the signature of his heir. Because in this country, without qualms, being a murderer and thief does not condemn you, but can even strengthen your aspirations,” stated the journalist, accentuating the idea of impunity that exists around the pardon granted in favor of Fujimori Fujimori.
“Since there is hunger and there is chaos, the convicted criminal, the failed Japanese senator, comes again to tell us that he is here to serve us, that he has the solution, that there will be a strong hand and immovable rules for investments,” said Hildebrandt, alluding to the social and economic deterioration that is being experienced in the country and to the rhetoric that Fujimori would use to attract popular support.
The journalist also suggests that Keiko Fujimori, at the head of Fuerza Popular, has established the necessary conditions so that her father’s return is well received by certain sectors of the population. “His daughter, who de facto presides over this government of living filth, has created the conditions so that the hungry, the ignorant and the scoundrels await the return to power of the mediate chief of the Colinas,” wrote Hildebrandt, making direct reference to the violations. to human rights committed during the Fujimori government.
And in the case of the direct person responsible who accompanied Fujimori in all these crimes and many others, he described Montesinos, former advisor and right arm of the dictator, in implacable terms, highlighting his unscrupulous character. “Montesinos was a guy who, according to various eyewitness accounts,, The first thing he did when he found out about his father’s suicide was to ask himself if that event would not harm him,” he said. By remembering that anecdote, he reinforces the perception of coldness and calculation behind Fujimoriism.
