Peru has denied entry to a former Chilean MP for considering him a ‘threat to national security’

The former deputy and militant of the Chilean Communist Party, Hugo Gutierrez He denounced having been refused entry to Peru last Friday on the grounds that he is considered a “danger to national security” by the authorities of this country.

In this sense, the immigration authorities of the border control of Santa Rosa, located north of the Chilean pass of Chacalluta, informed Gutiérrez that he had a “a restrictive alert”, that is to say a notification of non-admission to Peruvian territory under Section 48(48) of Legislative Executive Order 1350.

Meanwhile, the complaint published by the former Chilean legislator specifies that access to Peru is restricted for foreigners who “represent a situation of danger or threat to national security, public order (…) the prevention of criminal offenses or the international relations of the Peruvian State; and when there is information from domestic or foreign intelligence agencies in which the person is classified as a national security risk.

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After the refusal, Gutiérrez, who was also a former member of the Constituent Convention, tried to overturn the ban at the Consulate General of Chile in Tacnabut he did not accomplish his mission and had to return to national soil. “I am neither a danger nor an enemy of Peru. I have ties to Peru because of my belonging to the region”Hugo Gutiérrez underlined according to the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio his situation.

“As a human rights lawyer, Dina Boluarte’s regime prevented me from entering Peru, in order to hide the massacre that took place from the international community. I will continue to denounce and embrace those who defend dignity to live better and in peace,” he said.

“The regime of Dina Boluarte considers me a danger to the national security of Peruaccording to their information from domestic or foreign intelligence agencies and prevents me from entering their country,” Gutiérrez said.

Who is Hugo Gutierrez?

He was born on October 5, 1961 in Iquique. He is the son of Hugo Gutiérrez Lara and Margarita Luisa Gálvez Díaz, in addition, He is divorced and the father of six children. He completed his primary education at Basic School No. 3 in Iquique. He completed his secondary education at the Men’s Lyceum in that city and graduated in 1979. He did his compulsory military service between 1980 and 1981 in the Carampangue Infantry Regiment No. 2, with a garrison in Baquedano, Iquique , where he achieved the rank of second sergeant. . . Afterwards, He studied law at the University of Concepción.

Due to his participation in the university movement of opposition to the military regime, in 1985 his scholarship was suspended and he was expelled from the university, before which he filed an appeal for protection before the Court of Appeal of Concepción , which ruled in his favour. .

In 1987 Gutiérrez joined the Chilean Communist Party at the age of 26.However, he was not considered a central part of the party’s central structure, although he was a member of its political commission, and served as councilor of the Estación Central municipality (metropolitan area) and deputy of Iquique since 2010.

“I am a permanent provocateur”, he admitted. He attributes it to his “pain” for the cases of human rights violations during the dictatorship that he experienced in the 1990s as a lawyer. In fact, in 2013 his controversial style came to light, when he called the then president an “idiot”. Sebastian Pinera after your public account. In 2017, he slipped that the president’s voters were “idiots”, after his 55% in the second round. His public figuration increased after several overflows after the social outbreak, in October 2019.

Along the same lines, in August 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, attempted to evade a sanitary control by the Chilean Navybefore which, the institution denounced him before the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a few months later, he even treated the Navy of “unlawful terrorist association”.

Likewise, when an official of the Constitutional Court of Chile went to notify his office in Congress of the appeal against him, he refused to sign the communication, because he decided not to defend himself before that body. Uncomfortable, the official confessed that something similar had never happened to him.

For other parliamentarians, their attitudes “they ignore the institutionality” on time. However, the communist activist argues that “The people have already ignored the 1980 Constitution”concerning the installation of the Constituent Convention, which had the task of drafting a new constitutional text, which was rejected in a plebiscite in September 2022.

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