Boluarte co-authored the book in question with six other people. Photo: Infobae.
According to reports from Lima, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has faced accusations of plagiarizing a book that she included as her own work on her resume back in 2007 when applying for a job in the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status.
The TV show Punto Final reported on Sunday that 55% of Boluarte’s “Reconocimiento de los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario” (Recognition of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) from 2004 consisted of theses, monographs, and academic articles published in Mexico, Argentina, and Costa Rica. Additionally, the show explained that she co-authored that work with six other people.
“I have heard the president mention in the Councils of Ministers that she is always willing to undergo any investigation. In that regard, I can confidently say that she is open to being investigated, and I would encourage anyone to thoroughly examine and clarify this situation,” Minister of Women’s Affairs Nancy Tolentino said in a press conference.
As reported by Lima media, the original book consists of four chapters spanning 176 pages. Interestingly, when Boluarte assumed the position of Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, she did not include it again in her résumé.
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The TV show carefully reviewed the publications both manually and by employing Turnitin, a plagiarism detection tool that relies on a comprehensive database. It was discovered that what Boluarte had written lacked any section dedicated to bibliographic sources or footnotes, which are essential for crediting the authors of cited texts. Upon comparing an Argentinian scholar’s paper from 2000 with Boluarte’s book, it became evident that the entire content of the former was present in the latter. Additionally, four paragraphs were found to be identical to those published on the website of the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico in 2002.
