Candidate promoting hate speech in Peru is partner of global hotel corporation

Candidate Rafael López Aliaga – a social media hate campaign broadcaster – promotes the image of a successful entrepreneur. However, the facts tell another story. In 2001 he was interrogated in Congress for alleged tax evasion, in 2005 he unleashed a pitched battle in Lima financial center for business problems, and in 2017 the prosecution opened an investigation for money laundering in the Panama Papers case for using offshore companies to move suspicious resources. In this context, one of his largest companies in the country, Peru Holding de Turismo, had millions of losses between 2008 and 2019. Precisely, this company has investments with the multinational Belmond LTD (formerly Orient Express), benefitted by the privatization process started by Alberto Fujimori’s regime. Today this chain operates hotels and trains in Cusco, Urubamba, and Machu Picchu, due to concessions and usufructs delivered by the Church and the State ending between 2025 and 2047.