Guido Bellido is accused of receiving intimate photos and claims that it is “to discredit his political image

The congressman of Peru Libre and former president of the Council of Ministers, Guido Bellido spoke out on his official Twitter account on accusations of Jackeline Zúñiga Mendoza, who commented that her former partner, an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), sent her intimate photographs of you to the parliamentarian without your consent.

“Regarding the statements of Mrs. Jackeline Zúñiga Mendoza, a journalist for Inka Vision and former counsel of the Provincial Municipality of Cusco, I strongly point out that I never received any personal photos. He cannot use his marital problems to discredit my political image,” Bellido tweeted despite the evidence that the aggrieved woman showed.

The 15th Family Court, on 22 March, decided to grant protective measures in favor of Jackeline Zuñiga Mendoza for acts of psychological and sexual violence against Abarca Soto, who was also the adviser to the head of Mincetur, Roberto Sanchez. Soto, was removed from the tourism portfolio at the end of March when it became known that he disseminated the photos of the victim.

“I don't know at this time if Mr. Bellido or Mr. Abarca have more photos of me, photos that have been taken in the intimacy of my relationship. In any case, the only thing left for me today is to defend myself and one way of defending is to inform, I have no other choice,” Zúñiga told “Panorama”.

“How can I not be disgusted. Never in my existence did I really think of going through this situation. In what sick mind is it possible to send photographs of your wife, your partner, your wife, your cohabitant, no woman deserves to have her privacy invaded like this,” he added.

On Sunday he said that Abarca would have entered the Mincetur with help, since he received 15,000 soles per month, without being a career public official.

THE LIST OF CHARGES AGAINST GUIDO BELLIDO

Throughout Pedro Castillo's government, we have seen Bellido as a figure very close to both the president and Vladimir Cerrón, but when he took over the PCM, several accusations against him for homophobia and machismo came to light, due to his expressions on social networks. One of them is on April 3, 2020, when he referred to the measure adopted during the mandatory quarantine in which men and women had a specific day to take to the streets during the pandemic of COVID-19.

“Tomorrow you can come out normal. If they want to arrest you tell them I identify myself as a woman and apart some NGOs will defend you,” he wrote.

Similarly, he lashed out at homosexual people by referring to them in a derogatory way: “The revolution does not need 'hairdressers' and 'work will make them men'. The 'new man' cannot be a 'fag. ' 'Socialist society cannot allow such degenerations'. Words of our Cuban commander and leader Fidel Castro in 1963 when referring to homosexuality,” he posted on his Facebook account.

On another occasion, he also exposed his degree of machismo by sharing the reasons why a man committed suicide. “Women are so destructive and ruthless when it comes to mixing their grudges and selfishness. I don't see any lesbians or gays organizing a mobilization. If things continue as they are, violence will become more accentuated every day,” he wrote, turning responsibility for death on his wife.

After that, the then premier apologized publicly, but shortly thereafter, the congresswoman from Avanza Pais and third vice-president of Parliament, Patricia Chirinos, publicly denounced having received a sexist expression from Bellido Ugarte. According to the parliamentarian, the event would have occurred during the days when the Board of Directors of the Preparatory Board was installed, when the legislator also asked her for the office where her father, the late former congressman Enrique Chirinos Soto, worked.

“Please, I would like you to help me and give me this office that was my father's, I have a lot of feelings for that office. Please help me,” Patricia Chirinos would have asked the then prime minister.

“And Bellido said to me: 'What do you worry about that, go get married. ' And I said, 'Excuse me? I've been single, married, divorced and now I'm a widow. ' And he said to me: 'So now you just need to be raped. ' He told me directly,” Chirinos told RPP.

Finally, the last one that came to light was on a cable show. Asked about the previous allegations towards him, Bellido said: “The only recommendation to all our sisters or any other companion is that one must think before you get into that. He has a father, a son, a brother.”

“Then, if I were a woman, I say, 'What would happen if my son was told that? What would happen if my father was told that because of some situation? Or what would happen to my husband? '” , he added.

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