Overview
- Supreme Resolution No. 360-2025-IN published in El Peruano formalized Balladares’s appointment as national superintendent.
- Supreme Resolution No. 359-2025-IN accepted the resignation of Armando Benjamín García Chunga from the post.
- The appointment order bears President José Jerí’s signature and is backed by Interior Minister Vicente Tiburcio Orbezo.
- Balladares has served as a university professor, former Sucamec superintendent, Mining Council member, and civil society magistrate before the OCMA.
- Coverage links the leadership change to recent Peru–Chile border tensions and to transport leaders’ complaints alleging lax controls under prior management.