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The Peruvian Police has executed today the arrest warrant against the radical Betssy Chávez, former prime minister of former President Pedro Castillo. The Prosecutor's Office previously got the Supreme Court to declare its appeal well founded and order preventive detention against the leader of Democratic Peru, a splinter group of Free Peru (PL), the Marxist-Leninist party that supported the teacher from Cajamarca in the 2021 presidential elections.

The Public Ministry accuses Chávez of the crimes of rebellion and conspiracy, to the detriment of the State. The former prime minister accompanied and encouraged Castillo during the televised address six months ago, when he decreed the dissolution of his great enemy, Congress; He called on the people to seize it by force and also ordered the arrest of the attorney general. Witnesses present at that time at Pizarro's house confirmed that Chávez supported the self-coup proposed by his political boss.

Chavez answered the Supreme Court through Tik Tok and assured that he would not move from his home in Tacna, near the border with Chile. She was arrested minutes later. The leader took advantage of the live connection to remind her followers that her book "Story for a month or if you want for life" is about to go on sale.

Later, the police transferred Chávez to judicial facilities, from where she will be transferred to a penitentiary center to serve a provisional sentence of 18 months in prison. Family and friends of the detainee assaulted journalists who came to her home, even throwing their dogs at them.

Chavez was part of the hard line of the Castillismo during the seven months he remained at the head of the Ministry of Labor, a position he had to abandon due to the censure of Congress. For three months she served as head of Culture, until she acceded in November to the post of prime minister, in which she remained only a few days, when she resigned on December 7 after the failure of the coup d'état.

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