Peruvian President Pedro Castillo added to doubts about his ability to lead by announcing the second Cabinet shakeup in a week -- and the fourth in six months. Castillo was a rural schoolteacher with no political experience when he was elected last year.
On Friday, Castillo didn’t give specifics about the latest changes planned for the Cabinet, but his announcement implied that newly appointed Prime Minister Héctor Valer would be resigning as Peruvian law requires that post to be vacant before the Cabinet can be overhauled.
Castillo already had raised questions Tuesday when he announced his third Cabinet shuffle that saw Valer named prime minister and half of the 18-member Cabinet replaced. Among those changes, a geography teacher and member of the president’s party was appointed minister of the environment as Peru grapples with a big oil spill from a refinery on its Pacific coast.
Every Peruvian president of the past 36 years has been ensnarled in corruption allegations, with some imprisoned. One killed himself before police could arrest him. Interior Minister Avelino Guillén resigned last week alleging Castillo had not supported him to make changes in the police so authorities could more efficiently fight corruption and organized crime. On Monday, Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez quit, also saying that Castillo was not addressing corruption.Previous members of his Cabinet have also been accused of wrongdoing.
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