The Palaciega Mass ran the risk of shipwrecked like the trip. According to my ecclesial sources, the presidential office asked the Archbishopric of Lima to the Mass cathedral last Sunday, scheduled in tribute to Francisco, moved to the Palace. The Archbishop did not accept the order. The Office reformulated its demand: that a closed door is made for the presidential environment; and that the president is allowed to make a reading. The Archbishopric did not square the idea, and replied that he could not close the doors of the cathedral to the Catholic people. The conciliation was for each one to do their mass and tribute, without crossing.
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Do you think the subject is over with the Mass? No, what is going. Dina is stubborn and Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer knows that, luck of ‘travel agent’ presidential. On Saturday, in RPP, Schialer, who headed the Peruvian delegation that traveled to the burial, said from Rome: “I aspire that the president can decide to request authorization to come to the enthronement of the new Pope ”. Then he put the patch: “It’s something [a lo] that I am advancing, because it is something that she has to evaluate. ”Given the clarification, we cannot assure that he would have spoken with her about it, but he could read the thought. We will know it in the next few days, because the conclave will begin on May 7, after 2 or 3 days the new Pope will be chosen and between May 11 and 15 he will be enthroned. If Dina is thrown with the order and this is welcomed, ‘he would travel by insistence’. If not, what Roche.
Rome, always you
You will wonder, just like me, Caramba, is there no one in your environment to say, ‘President, isn’t it prudent to travel’? It is not even necessary to tell him about popular perception about frivolity and risk being sent to the horn. These valuations could be saved and explain that the congressional allies are fatigued with their departure orders and that they are exposed to pay votes at a very high cost to the Executive. According to my sources of government, there is no one who dares to tell Dina. Neither she consults these things. His three foreign ministers, the deceased Ana Cecilia Gervasi, Javier González-Olaechea and Schialer, complied with their traveling desire without a gut. The rest of the cabinet, mute.
“I aspire that the president can decide to request authorization to come to the enthronement of the new Pope. It is something [a lo] I am advancing, because it is something that she has to evaluate, ”says Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer. (Photo: PCM)/ John’s Azabache
However, I will tell you a revealing detail. According to a very reliable source of governmentthe Minister of Justice, Eduardo Arana, was included in the delegation that would accompany the president to Rome, before the congressional rejection was known. Arana did not make the trip funny and sent Schialer a letter in which he excused himself from attending because he had to take care of his sector agenda. According to my source, Arana would not be able to tell the president openly what he thought of her trip, but at least he implied the chancellor who disagreed and that the Foreign Ministry should fight so as not to expose the president to these desales. Schialer traveled to Rome, as corresponded to his function, and from there continued a tour of 4 countries of the Persian Gulf to strengthen commercial ties.
Regarding foreign trade, the presidential travel plan intuits it in January, when we saw that the official name of 2025 is the year of the recovery and consolidation of the Peruvian economy. It is not a mere motto to place in official documents, but a public policy that has led to strengthening certain functions and areas of the Foreign Ministry and Mincetur, including – here the president enters – the possibility of making some trips as an ambassador of the Peru brand. Presidential diplomacy, which they call him. Dina has already tried a bite of this when, being a vice president, he made some trips that Pedro Castillo could not or did not want to do. In 2022 he was at the APEC summit in Bangkok and before, in the Davos forum.
Dina also knew, before being president, that Congress could ruin trips. Pedro were denied 3 times, a meeting of the Pacific Alliance in Mexico (That cost us expensive because the then Mexican president López Obrador resisted giving us the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Alliance), to the assurance of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and, precisely, to the Vatican. That time – we know by diplomatic sources – Francisco was mosquty with the country whose congress prevented travel to greet him to the nice Andean president of the hat (We can presume that I saw it). Neither Dina nor former Foreign Minister Gervasi calibrated the weight of that antecedent, in addition to the deaths of 49 Peruvians in protests a few months ago; When, in October 2023, they traveled, with congressional permission, to Rome.
A source of the presidential environment told me that the idea of that trip appeared, imperiously, in the president. The previous scale in Germany, with meetings and leaders who did not cover importance, was – as we suspect at that time – a justification of the Vatican whim. In the days before the trip this anecdote occurred, at a time of palatial distention: Dina talked animated with members of the office, about the tourist milestones she could visit in a getaway through Rome. Someone mentioned the source of Trevi and the tradition of throwing a currency asking for a wish. Dina was interested and asked what she would ask if she came to throw the coin. He replied ‘Morgan disappears’ or something similar. There was a silence before that outburst of black humor. Quero, who was present because then he was the head of his technical cabinet, laughed to overcome the embarrassment. By the way, Quero ‘disappeared’ from the office shortly after, in December; but he returned empowered as Minister of Education in April 2024. Boluarte administers selective loyalty. To those who separate for reasons of force majeure or punishment, but consider ultimately loyal, it keeps them in the bank.
“The Minister of Justice, Eduardo Arana, was included in the delegation (…), before he knew of the congressional rejection. The trip was not funny and sent to Schialer a letter in which he excused himself from attending” (Photo: Congress)
The trip to the Vatican was a disaster announced. Since he entered the papal headquarters, his communications team was separated and was at the expense of the images of others! The relationship between the presidential office and the Foreign Ministry was terribly reached because the former could not forgive the second that he would not get a better photo.
The end of the war between the surroundings of Dina and Torre Tagle, occurred on the next trip and was bloody. He won the office but with the cost of new memes. The first days of November Dina requested a second permission to travel to the United States (he had already been there, two months before, in September, to attend the session period of the UN Assembly). The cherry of the trip would be a bilateral meeting with then President Joe Biden. Gervasi and our ambassador to Washington, Gustavo Meza Cuadra, asked about an anxious presidential office about the appointment that was not yet appeared on the White House agenda, replied that the appointment almost had it in their pocket. As you will remember, the fiancee ‘bilateral’ He became an encounter to the race, in which Biden took Dina by the hand and climbed a ladder while talking to the translator stepping on their heels.
The president’s office, according to my sources, resisted until the last moment to spread the images of the walk with Biden. They knew that they would suffer a cargamonton for not adjusting to what was promised; But Foreign Ministry insisted on dissemination. According to my source, Gustavo Adrianzén, then our ambassador to the OAS based in Washington; supported Gervasi and managed to overcome the resistance of the presidential office. Already in Lima, as a travel damage control, discomfort because diplomacy did not get a meeting in order with BidenDina supported her team and cut the heads of Gervasi and Meza Cuadra.
So that they do not say that national policy is chaos without memory, notice that the two departure orders so far rejected by Congress to Boluarte, correspond to the two fatal destinations of 2023: last year they denied a permission to the US and, a few days ago, to the Vatican. Schialer is warned. The votes do not depend on him in Congress, but the trip is happy. The president has no brightness, but a thousand.
