[News] Pact of San José: what it is and why the UPP bench wants Peru to leave

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The Union for Peru bench has presented in the Congress of the Republic a bill to withdraw the country from the American Convention on Human Rights, known as the Pact of San José, because it was signed there in 1969. This agreement was signed by the vast majority of Latin American countries, and the only one that is not part of it is Venezuela.

Why does Union for Peru want the country not to be part of the Pact of San José? According to Rubén Ramos Zapana, from UPP, because this has been "economically damaging" for Peru, because a lot of money had to be paid in compensation for people who had been wrongly convicted.

 

 

The real reason, however, is the same that has motivated other ultra-conservative parties, movements and banks to promote this type of project: the possibility of establishing the death penalty. None of the signatory countries of the Pact can apply the death penalty in their constitution, so the UPP wants Peru to withdraw to apply said punishment to "rapists of minors, feminicides and high corruption."

The truth is that the only person who can denounce the Pact of San José, and therefore leave the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - as the Venezuelan president already did - is the president of the republic, so that the proposal of UPP, like so many others in this short parliamentary period, is unconstitutional and, above all, a waste of time.