:quality(85)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/T7OLKDOG3NGFFC64GWNWOZLF6E.jpg "Daniel Urresti breaks his prison silence: “Here, I find it beautiful, to know the landscape of Canada”")
Daniel Urrestiformer Lima mayoral candidate and former congressman, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for the photographer’s murder Hugo Bustios In 1988 he played – since Virgen de la Merced Prisonin Chorrillos-, and probably with the authorization of prison officers, a telephone communication with a family member a few days before celebrating his birthday this Friday, August 25.
The video did not go unnoticed due to the particular way of referring to his current situation, in which he spends his days deprived of liberty for having been found guilty of being co-author of the crime of press manwho was murdered and his body exploded with explosives in the town of Huanta, region Ayacucho.
In the images, we can see a young man who would be the nephew of retired general, a phone in hand, at a restaurant table. “Hello man, how are you? How are you?” he says. To which Urresti responds: “Hello, José Luis, how are you, my son?
After the family member responded that everything was in order, the former candidate municipality of Lima He adds: “How are things going at home? What does the family say? “Well, thank goodness everything’s okay. My father, very good. Everyone at home very well. And how are you, how are you? » replies the nephew.
“You already know I’m here again to experience the Canadian landscape,” Urresti says with a laugh.
The nephew also responds with a laugh and says: “You, uncle, always have the spark. » “Yes, well, my son, what do you gain by losing your optimism and your spark. Faith in God and justice They must always be present. There, here, finally, I am fighting to prove my innocence,” he said.
In the call, Urresti He also explains that his legal defense is obtaining “new evidence” and that “they are presenting these documents.”
“Wait patiently until at some point it is time to Supreme Court review my case. I think that with all the new evidence that we are presenting, they should release me, but it’s all a question of patience and goodwill,” adds the former MP.
On November 24, 1988, Hugo Bustios He lost his life violently while working as a correspondent for the magazine Caretas in Erapta, a hamlet in the province of Huanta, at a time when terrorism was still rife in the country.
That year, Daniel Urresti, then a captain in the Peruvian army, led the military group in the region. The case began, but the former congressman was not included in it. Later, through the testimonies of the peasants, we began to speak of a certain Captain Arthurwhich was none other than the pseudonym Urresti.
The conviction of the former candidate for mayor of Lima comes after a long legal battle for the Bustios family. The back-and-forth of the process delayed Urresti’s sentencing for more than three decades.
Even in 2018, Urresti With his defense he obtained an acquittal, but in the second instance the decision was overturned and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for co-perpetrator of the photographer’s murder.
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