translated from Spanish: Peruvians get 2019 with protests by cessation of Odebrecht case prosecutors

Hundreds of Peruvians welcomed the year 2019 with protests against the controversial decision of the question of Attorney (Attorney general), Pedro Chávarry, the two main prosecutors who investigated the case dismiss Odebrecht, just four hours before the new year’s Eve.
There were spontaneous demonstrations in major cities of the country, such as Lima and the southern Arequipa, where its participants demanded output Chavarry, implicated in a scandal of judicial corruption that has marked political life in the country in the last half year.
They also asked the continuity of the fiscal Rafael Vela and José Domingo Pérez, who managed to bring to remand to the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori for alleged money-laundering within the party Popular force Fujimori, and banned leaving the country by 18 months former President Alan García.
With makeshift banners they interrupted the celebrations of the new year to focus on plazas and support a call made through social networking by civil society groups and social organizations.
These protests may be the prologue to a series of more mass demonstrations that are carried out throughout the country during the coming days and weeks to demand they not to freeze or halt investigations.
The two emblematic terminated prosecutors had planned to travel in mid-January to Brazil for questioning executives of the construction company Odebrecht weeks ago having reached an effective agreement (award-winning discovery) that provide all the information in Exchange for not going to jail.
The reasons for their termination provided by Chavarry at a convened barely five hours to finish the year press conference is that sailing and Perez violated the principle of hierarchy in the Prosecutor’s Office, to have questioned its tenure.
This episode raises also the tension between Chavarry and the President of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, who announced his return to Peru from Brazil, where he had travelled to attend the taking of control of the elected President of the country, Jair Bolsonaro.
Vizcarra has repeatedly requested the dismissal of Chavarry its linkages with a large network of traffic of influence, favors and corruption in the upper echelons of the Peruvian judiciary.
For this case of judicial corruption, called “The white necks of the port”, Chavarry has a series of constitutional complaints in Congress, whose address, in the hands of Fujimori, remains paralyzed without that debate be carried.
The same Prosecutor Perez denounced last December 26 for concealment to Chavarry, within the framework of investigations following against Keiko Fujimori, and accused him of having “executed acts to hinder or obstruct the effective agreement with the company Odebrecht”.
In addition to Keiko Fujimori and Alan García, the task of the Prosecutor’s Office, which was headed by candle and Perez also was investigating also the former Presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018).
Peru is one of the twelve countries of Latin America where Odebrecht acknowledged having paid millionaires bribes for awarding large contracts for public works.
In the Peruvian chapter bribes took place between 2005 and 2014, supposedly accompanied by large donations of money to key political leaders to finance their election campaigns for the Presidency of Peru.

Original source in Spanish