Genaro Delgado Parker and Alejandro Toledo: Partners in crime

There is no doubt by now that in Alejandro Toledo’s government Genaro Delgado Parker was the primary beneficiary of the dishonest business deals that have been made during this administration, which cannot be denied after the distribution of the jeopardizing audio tapes between Genaro Delgado Parquer-Fernando OLIVERA transmitted on journalist Cesar Hildebrant’s television program.

The dialogue was clear and disgraceful, Genaro Delgado Parker and the primary associate and “accomplice” of President Alejandro Toledo, Fernando Olivera, planning illegal business deals with government money and trying to take over private companies, everything as if the country were their small farm. However, the most revealing moment of the conversation occurred when Olivera assured Delgado Parker that the head of state was aware of all of the comings and goings.

In order to quietly raid the state’s treasury with impunity, President Toledo thought that by forcefully taking Panamericana and América Television from their rightful owners and giving these channels to his friends, he would have a compliant and controllable media to cover up his irregularities, but he was wrong! Despite everything, real journalists always denounce his shameless corruption.

Without a doubt, the journalists and workers of Panamericana Television, which was manipulatively taken from Ernesto Schutz Freundt and given to Genaro Delgado Parker, are in the most difficult of situations. Delgado Parker, per usual, does not pay salaries, CTS (Compensation for Time of Service), or medical insurance, among other benefits. And what does the Department of Labor and the Journalist Association have to say about this situation?

But Genaro “papaupa” Delgado Parker isn’t fading away and unfortunately for most people we will have Genaro Delgado Parker for yet a while to come. His recent presence at Beatriz Merino’s swearing in as the new People’s Defender, Peru’s government affiliated ombudsman, confirms his continuing presence in politics.

Judicial Branch's reputation continues to falter

Despite the announced reforms and campaigns with a focus on morality, a recent poll shows that more than 70 percent of Peruvians do not trust in the power of the judicial branch, an alarming figure that is the highest recorded in the last few years.


Respondents were also questioned about which of several cases best represented the corruption and inefficiency of the judicial branch, an 80% responded without question that it was the (shameless) theft whose victim was the businessman Ernesto Schutz Landázuri. The survey was conducted nationally by the polling company Encuestadores S.A. ENSA.

In the aforementioned case, the judges of the North Cone (Cono Norte - Lima's northern boundaries) stripped Ernesto Schutz Landazuri of his television channel in a scandalous sentence, whose origin pointed directly at the Government Palace, and redesignated the administration of Panamericana Television to the questionable Genaro Delgado Parker.

Another case the respondents remember in terms of the failed interventions of the judicial branch is the unpaid debts of the night club "Utopia." More than three years have passed since the ominous night that 30 young people lost their lives in the club and the family members have yet to receive retribution for their losses.

According to the specialists, a complete reform of the judicial branch will only be possible when the government changes since the judicial branch is currently at the mercy of politics and money.