Peruvian political experts tell the AFP there’s no guarantee that 83 year-old Jose Maria Balcazar, the country’s eighth president in 10 years, is going to be in office come the July 28th expiry of the current five-year term when an actually elected head of state will be sworn in a little under four years since Pedro Castillo, the last election winner, was removed and subsequently imprisoned.

Why? Well it turns out that Balcazar is basically the Latin American version of Roy Moore, the “ephebophile” former Alabama state Supreme Court justice whose 2017 special US Senate election campaign imploded and the seat flipped to Dem Doug Jones after it’d been revealed that Moore was all but criminally accused of being a prolific statutory rapist, allegedly to the point of being banned from a shopping mall in the 1970s. Now, although Balcazar’s never been accused of any similar conduct, in 2023, he told a congressional debate about ending child marriage that “early sexual relations aid a woman’s psychological future,” and voted against the ultimately-successful measure.

That right there’s a hell of a red flag. Also Balcazar was removed from the country’s Supreme Court in 2011 and then subsequently disbarred over unspecified corruption allegations, while Roy Moore was twice removed from the Alabama state Supreme Court for violating federal court orders to remove the Ten Commandments from the state rotunda and then defying the US Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. So yeah, Balcazar’s close enough to call him Peruvian Roy Moore.

He is not, however, in the Epstein files. A search of the DOJ’s database returns just two results for “Balcazar” and they’re simply copypasta of financial news stories mentioning “Pictet portfolio manager Andres Sanchez Balcazar” that some dickhead emailed to Dirty Jeff in October 2016.