Overview
- In new interviews, Vladimir Cerrón named Pedro Castillo, Betssy Chávez and Aníbal Torres as the intellectual authors of the December 7, 2022 dissolution announcement.
- He argued Castillo was misled to believe he had military and police backing and portrayed the former president as a victim of a coup rather than its instigator.
- Cerrón said the 2021 Castillo–Boluarte ticket was improvised after what he called an arbitrary court ruling barred his own candidacy, a decision he says was later annulled.
- He rejected alleged ties or advisory links with the Cuban embassy or former ambassador Carlos Rafael Zamora, describing only brief, protocol-level contacts.
- Congressman José Cueto publicly dismissed Cerrón’s account as disconnected from reality, as legal cases against Castillo, Chávez and Torres continue and Chávez pursues asylum at Mexico’s embassy.