Seeing Alejandro Toledo imprisoned is for David Waisman the best ‘punch’ he could give the former president

The ex-president Alejandro Toledo He is facing extradition proceedings which would soon force him to answer before the Peruvian courts. As he tries to delay his return by filing legal remedies in the American courts, from Peru his former vice-president, David Waimanhe waits for the day when he will see a prisoner in Barbadillo where they are also Alberto Fujimori there Pedro Castillo.

“I don’t hate him,” the former investigative ally told Correo. He says he is bitter at the betrayal committed against the millions of Peruvians who trusted him at the end of the dictatorship. “I thirst for justice for the damage he has done to the country. (…) I think the best shot I could give him is to see him in jail next to (Alberto) Fujimori“, he indicated with the hope that Toledo accept sincere confession.

By sharing the details of the alleged acts of corruption committed during his government, the public would know the rest of the figures involved. “Let them also pay so that there is an exemplary sanction against all public officials and that the applicants know that they will not escape justice if they commit thefts.” indicated the former vice-president who also questions Pedro Pablo Kuczinski.

David Waisman recalled the occasion when Alejandro Toledo threatened Pedro Pablo Kuczinski to “talk”. “PPK was one of the closest people to Toledo. I am sure, almost sure, that a very large percentage of all the acts of corruption that have compromised Toledo have been committed with him”, added the interviewee to the aforementioned media about the former president being investigated by the Peruvian authorities. .

“One of the people who must be deeply concerned about the upcoming arrival of Toledo must be PPK. I think if Kuczynski had had time to serve his sentence, even though he was in a terrible fight with Toledo, he would have been forced to do everything possible to clear the way to Toledo, and clean up, but time has not reached him,” added David Waisman.

A trip to Cabana, the birthplace of Alejandro Toledo, touched David Waisman who, at the age of 62, heard the story of the extremely poor boy who succeeded in his studies abroad. “It was very emotional for me. He showed us this little house where you could still see the traces burned on the wall by candles, because they had no electricity, no water, no drainage,” said the former vice-president.

The opposition to the government of Alberto Fujimori was what marked the political union between the two. Although he voted for the then president, he was convinced that he had to deal with a government with big corruption issues. “I voted for Alberto Fujimori. I liked their motto: honesty, technology and hard work. Do you buy into that, I asked Toledo? “Don’t fuck with me,” Toledo replied, in his to speak. “I am against this dictatorship,” Waisman recalled.

A common ideology consolidates their proximity. Support for national industry, value-added work and the processing of raw materials in Peru were the pillars of David Waisman’s plans that convinced the then presidential candidate. “He shook my hand again. That’s how we all started, ”says the man who will have sometimes held the presidency during a government where scandalous acts of corruption have been committed which have yet to be resolved.