The president of Congress, EDUARDO SALHUANAhe traveled to USA last Saturday, May 3, in the midst of the tragedy for the kidnapping – and subsequent murder – of 13 mining workers in Pataz, La Libertad. This is confirmed by its immigration registration, which the trade accessed.
On Saturday, when Sallejuana left for the United States, it was already known that 13 miners were kidnapped in Pataz by a group of criminals.
Last Sunday it was revealed that the 13 were killed by their captors. Because of this fact, a sector of Congress has been reimproidating a motion of censure against prime minister, Gustavo Adrianzén.
Asked if the trip was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Congress, the third vice president of that institution, Alejandro Cavero (Avanza País), responded to El Comercio: “That’s right, the agreement is several days ago. That trip had already scheduled, which I remember.”
Cavero added that the details of the trip are consigned in an agreement of the Board of Directors. However, this document has not yet been published by Parliament.
Meanwhile, the first vice president of Congress, Patricia Juárez (Popular Force), reported in dialogue with the press: “I understand that he had representation activities. It seems to me that in Utah.”
The trade consulted the Congress of the Republic the reasons for the journey, but until the publication of this note, the information has not been provided.
For now, travel details are unknown, who integrates the delegation and when it will return to the country.
Salljuana did not respond to our communication attempts. Nor has he spoken for the murders in Pataz.
The investigation unit of this newspaper deepened in August 2024 the saving links with informal and illegal mining. He revealed that he has had a close relationship with Baca Casas, a questioned family clan that extracts gold in Huepetuhe, one of the main areas of informal and illegal mining in Madre de Dios.
In addition, he revealed that in February 2021, Sallejuana received a power from Marcelo Quispe Osnayo and César Bermúdez Rojas, two informal miners of Madre de Dios, to represent them before the Public Ministry and the Judiciary, when they were investigated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Environment (FEMA) for alleged crimes against natural resources.
Meanwhile, last November, the Congress yielded to the pressures of informal miners and extended the validity of the Integral Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo) until June 30, this 2025, with the possibility that the Executive expand it for another six additional months. In practice, it was a formula that gives white letter for up to an additional year to a mechanism that lives with illegal mining.
It is not the first time that Sallejuana travels abroad in the middle of a complex situation. Last January he left China in a context of the institutional crisis of Congress, after revealing the alleged existence of a prostitution network in that state’s power.
That time, Sallejuana cut off his agenda in China and returned to Peru in response to the questions against him. It was a trip on which transparency was lacking by the Congress, as reported by the trade.
Last Monday, before his trip to the United States was known, the press tried “Fourth power,” would have made freedom with resources from Parliament in December, in order to attend a party of his party, Alliance for Progress.
GIVEN
The Plenary of Congress will meet on Tuesday, May 6 from 3 PM to challenge the Minister of Social Development and Inclusion (MIDIS), Leslie Urteaga, for the situation of the Wasi Mikuna program (before Qali Warma).
Urteaga will respond to two interpellation sheets. The first contains 14 questions and the second 10. All referring to cases of beneficiary poisoning of Wasi Mikuna.
Interpellation is the only point on the agenda of that session.
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