These new faces are running in the formulas of the presidential candidates Ricardo Belmont (Partido Cívico Obras), Carlos Álvarez (Country for All) and Roberto Sánchez (Together for Peru).
Some of the participants in these plates were identified by their links and positions of support for the vacant former head of state Pedro Castillo and others, by their background or investigations that appear in the records of the Prosecutor’s Office.
—The Ricardo Belmont Works Party—
One of these new candidates is Daniel Hugo Barragán, candidate for the first vice presidency for the Civic Obras Party. He was not only close to Castillo Terrones, but also to the then Union for Peru (UPP) party, which maintained strong ties with the ethnocacerista leader Antauro Humala, sentenced for the ‘andahuaylazo’ riot.
In April 2020 he served as advisor 2 to former congressman José Vega and then, in May, to the parliamentary group Unión por el Perú, with a salary of 9,499 soles.
In 2021 he ran as vice president of the Republic for UPP, but was unsuccessful.
Between 2021 and 2022, when Castillo was president, he served as an advisor to the ministerial office of the then Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sánchez. Shortly after, between September and December 2022, he was appointed Minister of Defense.
(Photo: Presidency)
Who follows him is Dina Irene Hancco. She is running for second vice presidency for Ricardo Belmont. He has a bachelor’s degree in Education from the Federico Villarreal National University, but he also has a criminal past:
On September 4, 2017, she was sentenced by the Second Single Criminal Court of the Juliaca headquarters (Puno) to three years and six months of imprisonment suspended for the crime of smuggling, the same sentence that was served, according to the National Elections Jury (JNE).
But that’s not all. This newspaper was able to verify that in the fiscal district of Puno there are two investigations against him: One dated April 8, 2009 for the crime of human trafficking, and another dated September 11, 2009 for the crimes of generic falsification, illicit association, corruption and document falsification.
He was part of the ranks of Alianza para el Progreso (APP) from May 4, 2017 to January 25, 2019. He also belonged to Unión por el Perú from September 30, 2020 to August 18, 2021. He is currently part of the ranks of the Civic Obras Party since July 12, 2024.
We tried to communicate with the candidate, through the group’s press area, but at the close of this edition we did not receive a response.
—A Country for All by Carlos Álvarez—
Another controversial candidate is María Cristina Chambizea. The candidate for the first vice presidency for Country for All has a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and is also a defender of the coup leader former president Pedro Castillo and Lilia Paredes, wife of the former president and asylum in Mexico after the failed coup d’état of December 7, 2022.
In the publication of December 8, 2022, one day after the well-known coup d’état, Chambizea wrote the following: “Strength Lilia Paredes Navarro. Here we are. Sorority with you, sister. I am not joining the feast. Strength!” This, after the capture of Castillo when he was on his way to the Mexican Embassy.
On July 23, 2021, after the election result that saw Castillo Terrones as the winner, he spread a congratulatory message in favor of Paredes: “The first lady of the Bicentennial (is) ‘Cajacha’. May the criticisms and ridiculous opinions that she ‘adapt’ or learn ‘social etiquette’ do not make you change; carry our customs and impose them from our deep Peru. God give you wisdom to be the complement of the President (Castillo).”
On July 19 he said the following: “Good vibes, Professor Castillo. God give you wisdom to govern, without fear. A professor, peasant, rondero from deep Peru; it is no coincidence 200 years after the cry for independence. We trust you; these are times of concertation and reconciliation of all Peruvians. Long live Peru! Long live Cajamarca! Long live Chota!”
All of these positions in favor of Castillo are confronted by Carlos Álvarez’s criticisms or questions against the professor.
In January 2024, the presidential candidate assured that “he would give Castillo a life sentence for what he did with children with cancer.”
“The then President Castillo held a ceremony in the Patio of Honor of the Government Palace with a check for 4 billion soles saying that there was going to be treatment, oncological medications, everything for children with cancer. (…) And then Kurt Burneo, the Minister of Economy at the time, came out and said that this check is not budgeted, that that money does not exist. And many of those children have died,” stated Álvarez.
It is worth remembering that when he was questioned during the 2026 presidential debate cycle by Yonhy Lescano, when he was called the opening act for Montesinos, Álvarez responded – in an attacking mood – that Lescano was the opening act for Castillo.
Now, who accompanies Álvarez, in the second vice presidency, is Diego Edgar Guevara. The candidate has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Andean University of Cusco. He was a consultant to the Council of Ministers in 2017. In 2018 he was a FAG consultant to the Ministry of Education and manager of Administration and Finance of the Contigo party. In 2020 he was the titular treasurer of the Fuerza Moderna party.
—Together for Peru and Sánchez’s plank—
Meanwhile, Roberto Sánchez has two candidates for the first and second vice-presidencies of the Republic in his presidential plan.
The candidate for the first position is Analí Márquez Huanca. The candidate participated in the 2020 extraordinary congressional elections for the National United Renaissance party for the Cusco constituency. She also ran in the 2022 regional and municipal elections to serve as provincial mayor for Together for Peru, but was not elected.
In 2018 he was administrative assistant 2 of the Municipal Management of the Provincial Municipality of Chumbivilcas. In 2019 he was head of the Municipality Office of the District Municipality of Llusco.
Like Sánchez, the candidate uses the figure of Pedro Castillo in her electoral campaigns.
The second member is Brígida Curo Bustincio. A report from the El Comercio Investigation Unit revealed that the candidate was charged before the Puno Public Ministry for riots and violence.
He does not register university or technical studies. It only has primary and secondary. She was a district councilor for the Independent Movement We Are Peru between 1999 and 2002. She participated in the 2016 general elections for the Frente Amplio por Justicia, Vida y Libertad party for the Puno constituency, but was not elected.
