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An ally of China key with presidential ambitions in Peru traveled at the end of last month in California to participate in a sending ceremony for a batch of trains given by the Biden administration, according to Peruvian media reports.
Peruvian outing Just Medio As the mayor of Lima, Rafael Lopez Aliaga, who should consider a race for the presidency of Peru, was in California at the end of last month to discuss the transport of a lot of Caltrain locomotives, which were donated to Lima by the American government under the Biden administration.
Nate Picarsic and Emily de La Bruyère, senior member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), recently published A study on “deep” financial links of Lopez Aliaga with China through its company Perurail, which saw its income reach more than $ 65 million per year due to all the expeditions of Minera Las Bambas, a joint venture belonging to Chinese counting the mining giant belonging to the China Minmetals State as a majority outline.
The report allegedly alleged that China had “cultivated” Lopez Aliaga for a higher office in Peru in the hope of cultivating its mineral and battery harvest in South America. The report goes as far as Dub Lopez Aliaga “The Man of China in Peru”.
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Xi Jinping (left) and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) during a train donation ceremony in November 2024 in Lima, Peru. (Getty / Us Embassy in Peru)
“The mining presence of China in Peru is a direct boon for López Aliaga,” said the report, giving Beijing “a powerful bridgehead in Peru”.
The report indicates: “This leaves an influential political leader aligned with and linked to China, to his project of resources and the wider belt and road initiative of which she is a part.”
In recent years, Chinese investment in South America, and Peru, in particular, has increased considerably.
According to NBC News, China has invested $ 1.3 billion in a huge deep water port in Chacay, Peru, just north of Lima.
Chinese President Xi Jinping participated in the port opening ceremony in 2024, during which he qualified the port on the start of the 21st century maritime silk road in China, according to the point of sale.
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According to Picarsic, China has also invested massively in Lima infrastructure, in particular dominating its electricity industry, that Lopez Aliaga was an “linchpin” article in the displacement of Chinese domination.
Now, with Lopez Aliaga perhaps entering the presidential race of Peru, Picarsic explained that all this “looks like a revealing sign of Chinese work”.
He also called the American trains gift in Peru “too little, too late” to fight against the growing influence of China in the region.
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The Lima coast in Peru, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (Milko Torres Ramirez / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We come with a donation from a number of clinty railway cars. But this type, which is calates with China, which comes to take them and it brings them back to run on a Chinese rail supplying a Chinese port, helping to move goods from a Chinese mine.”
Former Secretary of State, Antony Blinken participated in a train donation ceremony last November in Lima, Peru, where he praised the project as an opportunity to “strengthen the links between Peru and the United States” and declared that training “is not only a symbol, but the practical demonstration of possibilities – the possibilities that come when we connect to all”.
“This agreement testifies to the strength and sustainability of the long-standing relationship and mutually beneficial to Peru,” he added. “I am so proud that Caltrain is a member of this mutually beneficial relationship.”
