Peru president impeached
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/americas/peru-president-castillo-congress-dissolves-intl/index.html
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Peruvian lawmakers have voted to oust President Pedro Castillo, dramatically escalating Wednesday’s political crisis that began hours earlier when Castillo attempted to dissolve the legislative body and install an emergency government.Congress began its session on Wednesday with lawmakers singing the national anthem. A majority of 101 lawmakers in the 130-person congress later voted to impeach Castillo, with the body announcing that Vice President Dina Boluarte will be sworn in as the new President of Peru.
The vote sent a clear message of defiance after Castillo announced plans for early parliamentary elections to work on a new constitution in a televised speech from the Presidential Palace, which also prompted a string of cabinet resignations and fiery reactions from top officials.
PS The Vice President of Argentina was found criminal guilty by a court and must spend 6 years in prison
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63872953Elsewhere, South Africa’s corrupt president refusing to resign and the so-called “peoples” ANC thwarting any impeachment of him
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/09/xrky-d09.html
Peru president has been arrested. There was another Latin American president who orchestrated a self coup but he survived it because he played in a different way, and he was a skillful right wing politician, and then several years later he became president for more than 12 years and he was placed in power by the US government, he had served them for more than 30 years and he knew how to maneuvers the police and the military. Castillo did not have that type of support
Two people have died and four have been injured during protests in Peru demanding general elections following the ousting of former president Pedro Castillo over his attempt to dissolve Congress. Demonstrators, many of them Castillo supporters, have for days demanded that Peru hold elections rather than allow Boluarte to stay in power until Castillo’s term ends in 2026.
Thousands of demonstrators took to streets across the nation again on Sunday, including hundreds in Lima, the capital, where riot police used teargas to push protesters back.
This is the opinion of the government of Cuba about Peru and Castillo
Every two in Peru they have a new president or a self coup
The new president is not very popular either, probably, is she going to be replaced too
No release from jail for Castillo
Meanwhile, Amnesty International urged the Peruvian authorities to avoid using “excessive force” in response to the demonstrations
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador backs Castillo. He highlighted that the results of the elections should be respected and that Castillo should not have been removed from office. Obrador told reporters that the ousted Peruvian leader had won democratically and thereby could not be removed from being president. He stated he would continue to regard Castillo as Peru’s leader.
The governments of Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina jointly urged for the protection of Castillo’s personal and judicial rights.
https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-backs-perus-ousted-leader-amid-deadly-protests/a-64082439
The USA involvement and the view from the Left
https://www.alternet.org/united-states-instigated-coup-peru/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/12/08/perus-oligarchy-overthrows-president-castillo/
Peru’s new government has declared a 30-day national state of emergency to quell violent demonstrations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/14/peru-state-emergency-pedro-castillo-protests
The education and culture ministers resign
Congress fails to pass a constitutional reform that would bring forward presidential elections to December 2023, to bring the vote forward by more than two years from 2026.
Supreme Court decides to hold Castillo in pretrial detention for up to 18 months during an investigation into charges of “rebellion and conspiracy.”
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