Overview
- Cerrón, reported as a Perú Libre presidential pre-candidate and fugitive, gave exclusive interviews laying out his version of events.
- He said his 2021 exclusion by what he called an arbitrary ruling, later annulled, forced an improvised ticket with Pedro Castillo and Dina Boluarte.
- He named Betssy Chávez and Aníbal Torres, along with Castillo, as the intellectual authors of the December 7, 2022 proclamation.
- Arguing Castillo was misled about backing from the armed forces and police, he contended the episode enabled a harsh response that he links to 70 deaths.
- He denied substantive links to Cuba’s embassy, describing only brief encounters with then-ambassador Carlos Rafael Zamora, and asserted Perú Libre lost officials after the Mirtha Vásquez cabinet.