The “Panorama” program reported this Sunday that, on August 3, it received a threatening notarial letter signed by the president peter castle. This two days following that program broadcast a report regarding a declaration of Bruno Pachecoformer secretary general of the Presidency, which implicated the president in alleged acts of corruption and receiving a bribe for the appointment of Hugo Chávez as general manager of Petro-Perú.
The same night the report was broadcast, Castillo had advanced his threat through a tweet. And in the letter, dated August 1, that is, the following day, he questioned a dialogue between Rosana Cueva, host of the program, and journalist Marco Vásquez. “[…] I demand your rectification and I order you to proceed to read the notarized letter that I am going to expose”urged the president.
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Likewise, following denying having received illicit money and ensuring that there is no evidence in this regard, he insisted on the request for rectification, delimiting: “Or otherwise, you will be sued for the crime of slander, insult and defamation.”
Response
Cueva, to whom Castillo addressed the letter, described as “presidential arrogance” and “abuse of power” that the president gives her and the journalistic program an order.
He added that although he can demand rectifications or initiate a judicial process, Castillo’s position “does not give him the authority or power to order what a journalist must say.”
“Who wrote that line for you? Whoever did it defines in those lines the profile of a king of the past or that of an autocrat who can order above the law what provokes him and not what corresponds to him, ”he added.