Convicted truckers’ association (Fenatrado) former president, Blas Peralta expects to be back with his family in 2020, after serving only four years of his 30-year sentence for murder.
Recently he spoke to fellow inmates and told them: “I tell you one thing. I was sentenced to 30 years, but my life experience says, and being a professional of law, 30 and 60 are the same. First because in Appeals that will be annulled and when we go to Cassation it will be lowered to 15. And when we go to the Supreme Court of Justice, it will be lowered to 10. And I have faith that by 2020 I will be home with my family.”
Peralta words were part of his testament of repentance for his sins, and included his conversion to evangelism in prison. He received a certificate upon accepting the new faith.
“By repenting and converting to Jesus Christ, we have paid our passage to celestial life,” said Peralta who received applause from the public, his fellow inmates and the ministry officers. Peralta says he has been a man of the Lord since 1976. He said he is in jail because “I have cheated God and have disobeyed His teachings. And for not fulfilling the promise with the Lord, I am today here, but I am at peace and happier than ever to be here.” He said he had promised God to retire from the truckers’ union movement and politics at 50, but did not do so.
The activity was organized by the evangelical ministry, Camara Internacional de Avivamiento. Peralta said that once he leaves the jail he would preach the word of the Lord.
His speech is circulating in a YouTube video online.
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MetroRD
21 July 2017
