{"id":142413,"date":"2017-12-27T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T03:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142413"},"modified":"2017-12-28T00:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:38:32","slug":"2-top-officials-quit-peru-government-amid-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/27\/2-top-officials-quit-peru-government-amid-political-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"2 top officials quit Peru government amid political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two senior officials resigned Wednesday from Peru’s government, the latest in a wave of defections amid a political crisis in the South American country. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LIMA, Peru \u2014 Two senior officials resigned Wednesday from Peru’s government, the latest in a wave of defections amid a political crisis in the South American country.<\/p>\n

Minister of Culture Salvador del Solar announced his resignation on Twitter without giving a reason for his decision, while presidential adviser Maximo San Roman said in a letter to embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski that his recommendations were not being taken into consideration.<\/p>\n

Their departures come days after the resignations of three members of parliament from the president’s party and his minister of interior.<\/p>\n

Kuczynski only barely survived an impeachment vote by congress last week for alleged corruption, and he set off protests at home and abroad with a Christmas Eve pardon of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori in what many Peruvians viewed as a political payback.<\/p>\n

Kuczynski said he granted a medical pardon to the ailing 79-year-old former president on humanitarian grounds. The action allows Fujimori to leave prison after serving less than half a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, including killings of 25 people by the military, that took place during his administration in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Relatives and a lawyer for some of the victims called Wednesday for judicial authorities or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to reverse the pardon for Fujimori, who issued an apology from his hospital bed for people \u201cwronged\u201d by his government.<\/p>\n

\u201cFujimori killed my son, and now Kuczynski in a cowardly and cruel manner ends up killing the rest of the family,\u201d one of the relatives, Javier Roca, told reporters.<\/p>\n

Abstentions by lawmakers from a party led by a Fujimori son allowed Kuczynski to narrowly avoid being impeached late Thursday over a payment that his consulting firm received a decade ago from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which has admitted bribing public officials throughout Latin America to win public works contracts.<\/p>\n

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