One of the most hilarious stories in political life in recent times is the case of the watches of the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte. At least she has me in awe. Let me refresh the matter: on the night of Good Friday, which also has its funny coincidence of dates, the police broke into Boluarte's home. They had a search warrant and no one was there, so they entered by force. They were investigating a collection of luxury watches that the president owned and that she had not mentioned in her asset declaration or adequately substantiated. The watches under discussion are apparently 15, including several Rolexes, one of them a $19,000 pink mega model. Now, it turns out that Boluarte, 61, a lawyer and official of the National Identification Registry, entered politics recently. In 2021 she was elected vice president of the Castillo Government, and when he was dismissed by Congress, she assumed the presidency by constitutional succession. And it also turns out that, apparently, before 2021, with her job at the Registry, she barely earned $15,000 a year, so she had a rather tight time financially. But when she suddenly became president, she began to wear an amazing collection of watches on her wrist. A striking change, because before her, in her civil service days, as a witness commented with an almost moving precision in detail, she even wore plastic watches.
It never ceases to amaze me that people pay attention to those things. Let them look with such zeal at the jewelry that the lady wears. I wonder who or who may have been making the disgraceful list; I imagine them analyzing each video, each photo, zooming in, looking for the models. An ingenious way to monitor the income of public representatives. And they have done very well, they have hunted red-handed to the alleged offender, although it seems to me that, for this route to be useful, it must be based on a certain prior hardship of the person being investigated. To compare with plastic watches. I think that the old rich people are able to hide the chorizada better. “This Rolex was given to me by my grandmother for my first communion,” the idiot in question could argue, for example, and remain so stupid. It seems that being rich makes everything easier, including stealing.
A week after the raid, the president declared that the collection of watches was a loan from the governor of Ayacucho and that, since they were not hers, she did not have to declare them; that she was wrong to accept the loan and that she had already paid them back. Wilfredo Oscorima, the governor (who would be like the grandmother of the first communion but less effective), is a lover of Rolexes and, in fact, according to a sales record, on May 31, 2023, he bought an exact model from the idiot of rose gold that the president wore and that cost $19,000. And it turns out that just that May 31, Baluarte turned 60 years old. Don't tell me that this clockwork soap opera, known in Peru as the rolexgateit is not formidable (all the data comes from the wonderful reports by Renzo Gómez Vega in EL PAÍS).
I don't know what Boluarte's alleged irregularities will end up with, but the case has reminded me of the love that people with a crooked lifestyle seem to have for very expensive watches. All the suckers have the same thing: as soon as they get a few bitches, they stick their hair on their wrist. We could follow in the footsteps of the Peruvians and do newspaper archive work to see what watches were used by the Spaniards convicted of corruption in recent decades. I bet they all cost more than a utility car (and without the advantage of being able to transport you from one place to another). Which shows several things: that those from watch companies are very smart and rather than making watches they sell status; and that the bad guys completely lack personality and imagination and are very stupid. Because, although we all know (robbery movies have taught us a thousand times) that the worst thing a thief can do when he steals is to be ostentatious, the vast majority of corrupt people lose their vanity, and they rush in headlong. to the seafood restaurants to peel lobsters with their shirts rolled up and a great display of their luxury watches. But what a mess. You have to continue carrying them in plastic.
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