PERU: Crime and Corruption Sink the Country

Executives that Control the State Raise Their Salaries While the Pensioners are Condemned to Starve to Death
MEF proposes raising President’s salary from 16 thousand to 36,000 soles

The National Central Union of Retired and Pensioners of Peru – CENAJUPE considers an immoral proposal to be repudiable in a situation of unbearable crisis, economic, political and social that the country is experiencing given corruption from the heights of the public authorities and in the midst of the misdeeds of organized crime and citizen insecurity, such as the case of the mining workers of Pataz and other construction workers, transport, traders and entrepreneurs.

If this situation occurred, it would mean, taking as an example the DL 19990 pensioners, that this salary and at the same time life pension, would be the amount of 60 regular retirees with minimum pension (S/. 600.00) more than 40 retirees with maximum pension (S/. 893.00) Taking into account that there are lower-income pensioners such as proportional pensions, fishermen and other social security schemes, whose tip pensions are barely used to pay for services such as water, electricity, gas, transport and communications without access to food and a decent life.

CENAJUPE will present its petition for complaints and already demands the negotiating space and find a solution to the demands of those who gave their working lives in the service of the homeland.