César Hildebrandt: “Rarely has the country we love and that obfuscates us so much been as unviable as it is now”

As every Friday, the weekly 'Hildebrandt in his thirteen' published in the Matices section, the opinion column of journalist César Hildebrandt. This time, it was titled “What may come”, making a forecast of the next steps of the Pedro Castillo government.

The director of the media analyzes the Peruvian left, which is not being represented by Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, President Pedro Castillo and the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón. It holds confusing ideologies responsible for the recent closures of roads, mines and dialogues.

However, he acknowledges that the left “is not that atrabiliarian old age or this chorado consortium that settled in the main square. The left now has no representation. It's a ghost, a past, a nostalgia. Let's say it with a certain neatness: the left is a cemetery.”

Drawing a parallel with the historical leaders of the left, Hildebrandt argues that José Carlos Mariátegui would not have shook hands with Vladimir Cerrón, or Alfonso Barrantes would have twisted Pedro Castillo's face. And he points out that even the modest Jorge del Prado would have fled from the Altamira caves of Perulibrist Marxism.

The journalist also removed characters such as Marco Arana or Verónika Mendoza to the left, neither Guido Bellido nor Guillermo Bermejo. And he points out that it cannot be from the left “a regime that does not believe in organized people but in the mob instigated by those who assume that the country will be refounded from a road blocked with logs and stones”.

He continues to warn that the government of Cerrón y Castillo is encouraging a climate of alleged rebellious peoples who demand what they want to be demanded. And among those demands are the second agrarian reform and the constituent assembly “for which there is insufficient support and which cannot be raised by a government that has demonstrated sinister incompetence.” Just today, Castillo announced progress towards a referendum related to a new Constitution.

Hildebrandt defends the idea that an emergency economy and a lucid government are needed to face a scenario like the current one with a war between Russia and Ukraine and the legacy left by a devastating pandemic.

Instead, he points out that what we have is a confusion, and on a daily basis we must be shocked to see what new crisis is coming. While the poor and middle class neighborhoods have been taken over by gangs of Peruvians and foreigners who have their own laws, their own armed forces, he says.

Along these lines, he dismissed the success of a dialogue table, as there was no commitment to reason in the political class, or a trait of generosity. He points out that the only point on the agenda of our politicians is their survival. “An aphraph counselor whispers to them: 'Hard, then I exist'. It's Descartes played by Acuña,” he writes.

The column ends with a serious warning. He argues that this whole situation could trigger the arrival of an extremist leader, who would arrive with the savior badge. “Cerrón is so clumsy that he believes that purification and rebirth will come out of this fire. The only thing that can come out of all this, silly boy, is a Pinochet in a fireman's costume. You are warned,” he says.

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