The praise of Adolf Hitler, the attacks on the press and other controversies that would cost Aníbal Torres the premier position

This Thursday morning during the Fourth Decentralized Council of Ministers in Huancayo, the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, praised the Nazi genocide Adolfo Hitler as a good example of management in the construction of motorways in Germany during the first years of his mandate, in the 1930s. These statements have generated rejection at the political, national and international levels, where even the Israeli and German embassies in Peru have interceded.

“On one occasion Adolf Hitler visits northern Italy and Mussolini shows him a motorway built from Milan. Hitler saw that, he went to his country and filled it with motorways, airports and made it the first economic power in the world,” said the premier, although his version is inaccurate, since Konrad Adenauer, who was then mayor of Cologne (1917-1933), proposed the construction of several motorways.

Then an attempt would be made to retract because he had been criticized: “There is no human being absolutely good or absolutely bad. That if we had given as an example of Germany's progress on the roads of communication, it is a real fact. That is not to say that Adolf Hitler is not considered a great criminal and that all those who supported him were prosecuted, punished, for the very serious crimes they committed. No one is judged by his good deeds, but by his evil deeds.”

This is not the first time that the president of the Council of Ministers has made controversial and misplaced statements that could cost him his quick release from office.

Faced with the rise of chicken in the markets, Aníbal Torres recommended eating fish: “Although the price of chicken rises, but the price of fish falls, especially horse mackerel, there are than to get used to consuming those substitute products that our sea can provide us with”.

In addition, he argued that he saw no shortage in the markets and considered that chicken was still being sold in the markets but had risen in price. “There is supply, but there is no demand because the price has risen,” he added.

INTERVIEW ON BLU RADIO

In an interview with Blu Radio in Colombia, the lawyer also called the press a “coup” and predicted that we are attending the last days of the government of Pedro Castillo, although the head of state has not mentioned anything about any resignation from his post.

“Well, everything is possible in Peru. I say again that this is nothing new in the country. We have had five presidents and three congresses in five years. We try to overcome, we try to dialogue with the other party, but the opposite party only looks at their interest, which are monopolies and oligopolies,” he told the radio station.

According to La República, Aníbal Torres submitted his resignation to President Pedro Castillo due to the political and economic crisis in Peru, but the president would not have accepted it. He also asked that Defense Ministers José Gavidia and Interior Ministers Alfonso Chávarry be removed from the Cabinet, who he would hold responsible for the demonstrations in recent days, but the President of the Republic would be evaluating those demands.

“I haven't resigned, the cabinet is very solid. I am very happy with this team that has been working for the good of the country,” he replied at a press conference to reject the information. It was even said that the premier would not attend Huancayo, but he was since Thursday morning at the Wanka Coliseum.

ATTACKS ON THE PRESS

It is common for Aníbal Torres to call the press “coup”: he did so when businesswoman Karelim Lopez, an aspiring effective collaborator, involved the premier in her statements, but he denied knowing the lobbyist and expressed her annoyance on her Twitter account.

“The slop of coup drivers does not know what to invent to justify the vacancy. I don't know Karelim L., I have never addressed her directly or by third parties. The Prosecutor's Office must clarify these false allegations ,” he said.

During the second vacancy process against President Pedro Castillo, the head of the PCM again attacked the press and those who were pushing for the president's exit.

“Virtually all the causes of vacancy are extracted from the Lima media, from those media that do not report, but misinform, that distort the truth, that are used to defame, slander, to lie with extraordinary cynicism,” he said in a public activity.

“And what is said about President Castillo? It is said that he is corrupt. Simply words. What they must provide is proof, if you have stolen a sun from the public treasury. But those thieves who robbed us in previous governments for billions are now behind Pedro Castillo's vacancy because they lost the bottle in 200 years of republican life,” he added.

When he was Minister of Justice , he had the same attitude against the press: “A majority sector of this one defamed the candidate and permanently defamed President Castillo. Professional defamers have no right to demand interviews.”

Months earlier, on December 1, 2021, Torres, who was then Minister of Justice, once again called the press a “coup” and accused it of “alliing” with the congressmen who filed the first vacancy motion against Pedro Castillo, an initiative that ultimately did not succeed.

Weeks later, he spoke out again against the press: “A majority sector of this one defamed the candidate and permanently defamed President Castillo. Professional defamers have no right to demand interviews,” he said.

FROM “SILLY BOY” TO ANTAURO HUMALA

Before the second round of elections between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, Aníbal Torres belonged to the technical team of Peru Libre, the current ruling party, and there he called ” muchachito tonto” to journalist Mario Bryce during an interview on the UCI Noticias channel.

“You're not going to hold me back, you're talking to people. It is not that you are going to speak barbarity and a half because you have the means, deceiving people and I am going to listen to you, no, silly boy, speak with truth and law. You're not the law, the judges aren't going to do what you're saying or your candidate or Montoya is saying. Here in Peru there is a legal system,” he said.

Bryce tried to reassure the current president of the Council of Ministers and replied: “Free Peru must learn to respect the country.” But Aníbal Torres replied: “Learn to respect yourself, don't be impudent, don't be cowardly.”

And days before he was sworn in as head of the PCM, Torres ironized about a possible release of ethnocratic leader Antauro Humala. “Since you can't by law, I'm going to make him jump a wall. At that time I'm going to make the whole police go to lunch and I'm going to put a car that has a speed of about 300 kilometers per hour to get him to leave,” he said. following the departure of Susana Silva Hasembank as president of the National Penitentiary Council of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).

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