Juntos por el Perú Reportedly Hires Relatives of Castillo’s Prison Guards

Parliamentary offices belonging to Juntos por el Perú have reportedly hired relatives of prison personnel responsible for former president Pedro Castillo’s confinement in Lima. An investigation broadcast on Sunday, November 8, identified the daughter of Barbadillo prison’s director and the son of a security officer among congressional staff. Yulissa Lucero Chujutalli, daughter of prison director Calixtro Lucero Rodríguez, reportedly works as a technician in deputy Azucena Isla Rojas’s office, earning about 8,300 soles a month. Alejandro Nicolás Hurtado Paz reportedly holds a technician’s post with the party in the Chamber of Deputies, earning about 8,000 soles monthly. His father, Juan Ramón Hurtado Barrenechea, is an INPE prison service security officer assigned to Barbadillo. Isla, who regularly visits Castillo, denied knowing the prison director or receiving Yulissa’s name from the former president. Hurtado acknowledged that his father works for INPE but declined to discuss the hiring, saying, “I have nothing to say.” The investigation also identified former Barbadillo director Héctor Sandoval Moreno as an adviser appointed in October to the Chamber’s Justice Commission, chaired by Juntos por el Perú deputy Catherin Palomino. Sandoval defended his professional qualifications and said he no longer worked at Barbadillo, directing questions to congressional human resources. The commission is due to consider a proposed amnesty for Castillo.