00:00Now we are going to stay on topic because Peru is ready to welcome Publio 14th amidst a political crisis
00:06and a climate of insecurity which the authorities are still far from resolving.
00:11However, its most humble citizens await this grand event with hope and excitement.
00:17For more information on the ground, our correspondent Ramiro Angulo has more details.
00:23Avila Ramos welcomes the Telesur team to the district of San Juan del Urigancho, the most populous district in Lima
00:31and in the whole of Peru.
00:33She manages the Nueva Esperanza communal kitchen and tells us that here, as in most of the country, there is
00:40a lot of poverty and insecurity.
00:43Yet, despite this, there is also a lot of excitement about the arrival of Publio 14th in Peru.
00:52We in the community have organized ourselves to install surveillance cameras throughout the Antonio Ramoni area so that we can
00:58monitor whether there is anyone who is not from the community, or if there is a car that doesn't belong
01:03to the community.
01:04Then we alert the surveillance control center to check whether that person should leave the area or whether neighbors should
01:10ask what they are doing there, not just to look after our children, the young people, and the children who
01:15are on their way to school.
01:18In North Lima, in the district of Puente Piedra, transport workers suffer from contract killings on a daily basis, according
01:28to leader Edgar Vitor, who points out that this problem cannot be tackled due to the government's inefficiency and the
01:36ongoing political crisis.
01:42Public insecurity is getting worse every day, you can see it for yourself on the streets, you can no longer
01:48work or walk alone because people are killing you, robbing you, and distorting you, and the state is completely unaware.
01:54It doesn't speak out when it should be despising strategies to tackle the issue of hitmen, the public insecurity we
02:01are experiencing, the economic crisis looming over us, and the approaching niño flooding.
02:06In my opinion, the president doesn't, she really does not have a work plan.
02:11No tiene verdaderamente un plan de trabajo.
02:15El Perú stands out exceptionally on the work stage for having had eight presidents in 10 years, between 2016 and
02:262026, a fact well known to the Pope, who lived in the country for part of that period.
02:34Look at the last 10, 15 years in Peru.
02:38Look at the last 10, 15 years in Peru.
02:41All we've had as politicians is that we enter politics simply to see what we can get out of it.
02:48And we haven't thought about national projects.
02:51One government ends, the next one doesn't respect it.
02:55There are no state policies or rather long-term ones capable of sustaining a country as rich as ours.
03:02Because I believe that if we weren't so rich, I don't know where we'd be.
03:07Not because the most complex factor is actually the political one.
03:16According to a recent study, 72% of Peruvians believe that Peru is highly unequal, and 84% believe that
03:25it is governed by a powerful few for their own benefit.
03:32Yes, I place great hope in the people's faith in their resilience, in their ability to work and to fight,
03:39and I believe that this is the strength capable of overcoming this conflict.
03:43This division in the country, the unity of the country, will not come from politicians.
03:48It will come from the organized people, from those who suffer day in, day out, and from those who will
03:55build a different country.
04:03It remains to be seen what kind of impact the visit by Pope Leo, a Peruvian Pope who understands the
04:09richness of this country, will have.
04:12A fragmented country, yet one that is eager to bridge the divides that separate it.
04:17With the camera of Fernando Chumpitaz, from Lima, to Telesur, Ramiro Angulo Maquiavelo.
