BREAKING: A Peruvian judge has ordered ousted President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody for 18 months, approving a request from authorities for time to build their rebellion case against him.
Peru’s Supreme Prosecutor Alcides Chinchay said in court Thursday that Castillo faces at least 10 years in prison for the rebellion charge.
“I was about to return to Ecuador on Monday, and unfortunately, they told us that all flights were canceled due to the protests,” said Karen Marcillo, 28, who has had to sleep at the Teniente Alejandro Velasco Astete airport in Cusco. While some protesters “seem to want kind of instability at any cost,” McClintock said, others saw his ouster as an opening to express simmering grievances, such as deep inequality, poverty and lack of public services.
Some grocery store owners there were cleaning the roads littered with rocks and burned tires, but they planned to close their doors because of the expected protests led by people from nearby rural communities. In issuing his ruling, Castro said said a “concrete flight risk” still exists in Castillo’s case and “remains latent over time. He cited Castillo’s apparent effort to reach the Mexican Embassy, remarks from Mexico’s president and foreign minister regarding their country’s willingness to offer him asylum, and a jail visit he received from Mexico’s ambassador in Peru.
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