Just a few hours ago, when it was already clear that Salomón "Siomi" Lerner was resigning irrevocably, his replacement, Oscar Valdés Dancuart, the new Peruvian Prime Minister, went out to the media trying to give an image of stability and denying any hint of crisis. When asked by one of the journalists ("how many left-wing ministers are leaving, Premier?"), Oscar Valdes, a pure humalist, answered: "I see neither left nor right, this is a decision of the President".

This phrase of the new Prime Minister condenses all the essence of humalism. Ollanta, since before arriving at the Pizarro Palace, is above ideologies. For him, the only thing that counts is the exercise staff of power, beyond institutions and Structures. That and nationalism. Since he renounced his Chavista government program - "the great transformation"-, Humala has become the quintessence of pragmatism. And like all rulers devoted to real politik, he deeply distrusts what he cannot control. That is why, even without wanting it at all (he asked him to stay), he has let Siomi Lerner, one of his closest friends, go. Humala, with this cabinet reform, liquidates those who have caused the most problems to the government (a sector of his leftist allies) and gets rid of the ministers who come from Toledo's quarry. The president wants to control his entourage absolutely. With Siomi, the Toledistas and the old left, this was practically impossible.

The government's pragmatism does not translate, as its new leftist critics maintain, into a kind of "militarization of the government" that takes its allies by surprise. The truth is that the Humalista government was born militarized. In fact, it was the left that supported from the beginning the return of praetorianism to Peruvian politics after supporting the candidacy of a former military coup leader like Humala. Because Ollanta continues to be, in essence, a soldier. And he surrounds himself with people like him (among them, the all-powerful advisor Adrián Villafuerte or the head of the National Intelligence Directorate, Víctor Gómez Rodríguez).

Ollanta belongs to the old tradition of bureaucratic caesars, redeeming caudillos who assume the leadership of the State for the "good" of the Republic. This became evident, once again, a few days ago, during the commemoration of the battle of Ayacucho, the day of the Peruvian army. In his speech, Humala said that it was essential for the military - "Socratic guardians of the Republic", he called them- to distance themselves from day-to-day politics, because "the soldier is like a priest who is beyond good and evil".

For Humala, if warriors are the Socratic guardians of the nation, so are presidents-soldiers. The left allied to the government, due to its intransigence in the Conga negotiations and the slowness in the management management assistant , loses power and begins to fear its political spawn. Meanwhile, a broad sector of the right wing welcomes the return of the "Military Party", the longest-lived in Peruvian history. Alejandro Toledo, "guarantor of democracy" dissociates himself from humalismo, guilty of his own words ("I will not allow the militarization of the government"), and his party, Perú Posible, takes refuge in the parliamentary option. And barely four months have passed since Humala came to power.