Ministry of Culture formalizes resignation of Deputy Minister Sonaly Tuesta

Sonaly Tuesta has officially broken its ties with the president's government Pedro Castillo, this after the Executive published a supreme resolution accepting the resignation of the deputy minister of Cultural Heritage and Industries Cultural Rights of the Ministry of Culture. The measure was announced two days after the well-known cultural promoter announced through its Twitter account that she was leaving office at the request of the sector's own minister, Alejandro Salas.

After thanking him for his services, resolution 006-2022-MC contains the signatures of President Pedro Castillo and the head of the Culture portfolio. This is a sober and short document that puts an end to Tuesta's work that lasted barely five months and ended with a complaint by the outgoing official. Through her Twitter account, the former host of “Customs” said that her departure was motivated by criticism of Prime Minister Aníbal Torres after having used Adolfo Hitler as an example of a nation's progress.

“I give you an example. Italy, Germany were just like us but once Adolf Hitler visits northern Italy and (Benedict) Mussolini shows him a motorway built from Milan to Brescia. Hitler saw that, went to his country and filled it with highways, airports. It made Germany the first economic power in the world”, were Torres' words during the decentralized cabinet in Junín.

“If we do not recognize and learn from the many good legacies of our ancestors, we will have speeches as regrettable as those of the Premier this morning in which to talk about developing a genocide like Hitler” were the statements of the former deputy minister that led to her departure from office she held until a few days ago.

From his social networks, Tuesta also shared the statement of the German Embassy in Lima on Torres' statements that “Hitler was a fascist and genocidal dictator, in whose name the worst war of all time was waged from Germany and a genocide of 6 million Jews was committed.”

THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE

Alejandro Salas, following Tuesta's complaint, pointed out that during the short two months he has been in office he found “permanent disagreements with the vice-minister” on “the guidelines of President Castillo's government policy” and added that he was able to “notice some weaknesses in the management of the vice-minister in his charge”, although he preferred not to specify what they were in his publication.

According to Salas, “the resignation was requested within the framework of serenity and under the will of dialogue”. “She didn't feel comfortable with those words of the premier, she shouldn't have expected to be asked to resign, she had to resign on the spot and not continue in office with a premier who did not represent her, according to her words,” were the words of the Minister of Culture to RPP.

In addition, Salas stressed that it was not being “thrown away”, but that its “trust” had been withdrawn. “What happens is that she could have talked to the premier so that he could explain this situation to her and surely she could have even asked him for personal apologies if she didn't like the gesture. But in a public event to establish something against the premier, I think it was not necessary or fortunate,” he added.

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