Yenifer Paredes in a letter on the failed self-coup sent abroad: “There are days when I don’t want to continue”

Yenifer Paredes, former president’s sister-in-law Pedro Castillosent an open letter to the Argentine newspaper on Wednesday page 12 In which he spoke of the failed auto-coup of last December, he declared himself mentally convalescent and asked for help from the international community.

However, the sister of the former first lady, for whom the public prosecutor requested 23 years in prison for criminal organization, aggravated collusion and money laundering, omitted that the prosecution has already formalized the preparatory investigation against the former president, accused of being the alleged perpetrator of several corruption crimes during his government.

“I can tell how illegal the detention was. I want to tell the world everything they did to us (…) I have my brothers and my mother in Mexico and my father in Barbadillo. There are days when I don’t want to continue,” reads the letter in which he details, from his point of view and his interest, the arrest of Castillo after he tried to dissolve Congress and govern by decree.

Since then, the former head of state has been detained in a prison in Lima, accused of rebellion. “The forces are leaving mebut I remember my dad hasn’t spoken to my brothers for two months (without phone communication because they don’t allow him to have a call, whereas here in Peru you have the right to a call daily),” added Paredes, who was released from prison in October 2022, after nearly two months in pretrial detention for an alleged crime. corruption case.

Paredes, whom the former president raised as a girl, was sentenced to 30 months in provisional prison, but the National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice revoked this decision ordered by a first judge at the request of the prosecution, declaring the appeal lodged by his defence. .

With this, he faces the trial opened against him under appearance before the authorities with restrictions, which include not being absent from his place of residence, or changing it without prior authorization from the competent judicial body.

Paredes is accused by the prosecutor’s office of being the “standard bearer” of the alleged network of corruption rooted in the Government Castillo by coordinating the allocation of public works in Cajamarca, the region where the presidential family is from, with the businessman Hugo Espino.

“My family and I implore international assistance, we will be eternally grateful to you. Blessings,” concludes her open letter, in which she defines herself as “daughter of Pedro Castillo, President of Peru.”