Luis Giampietri, former vice president of Peru, died

The former vice president of Peru and retired vice admiral of the Navy Luis Giampietri died this Wednesday at the age of 82 in Lima, according to the Congress of the Republic.

Right-wing legislator José Cueto, also a retired Navy officer, announced Giampietri’s death during the plenary session of Congress and asked for a minute of silence in his memory, given that he was also a congressman for the Aprista party during Alan’s second government. García (2006-2011).

“From the Congress of the Republic we extend our condolences to the family and friends of the former congressman of the Republic, Luis Alejandro Giampietri Rojas, for his sensitive death,” the Parliament shared in a message on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

In the same way, the Navy expressed its “deepest condolences to the family of Vice Admiral Luis Giampietri Rojas, who was Vice President of the Republic during his lifetime,” in another message published on the same social network.

Expressions of distress continued on social networks, while highlighting Giampietri’s long career in the Navy, a career that was not immune to controversy since he held management positions during García’s first government (1985-1990) and also in that of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

Hostage at the Japanese ambassador’s house

Giampietri was at the head of a Navy commando that went to confront a prisoner mutiny on El Frontón Island, which ended with the death of dozens of prisoners in 1986, and for which he faced a trial for alleged extrajudicial executions along with others. military.

In turn, during the Fujimori government, Giampietri was in charge of an arms acquisition that years later was the subject of a complaint of alleged corruption.

However, one of the most notable events in the vice admiral’s career was his participation in the rescue operation of the hostages of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in 1997.

Giampietri was one of the 72 hostages who spent almost four months in the house of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, but he offered information about the movements of the captors, through microphones introduced into the residence, which allowed the rescue to be carried out.

In one of his last public appearances, precisely to pay tribute to the commandos who rescued the MRTA hostages, Giampietri accused the extreme left legislator Guillermo Bermejo of having tried to attack the life of former President García and his own in 2006, complaint that was rejected by Bermejo.