Peruvian President Overthrown

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Congress move to abolish him.


Rapid fall from power, arrest for embattled Peru president

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CHRISTOPHER SHERMANtoday
LIMA, Peru (AP) — In just three tumultuous hours, President Pedro Castillo went from decreeing the dissolution of Peru’s Congress to being replaced by his vice president, but the threats against his government had been building throughout his nearly 17-month presidency.

 

[KMFJD]

Here's a thread on how/what/why

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tldr : it's a mess , obstructionist right wing controlled congress has tried to impeach him twice already and Tuesday would have been the 3rd time

Key points:

~From the first months, Castillo faced the danger of an impeachment vote for “lack of moral capacity”.

~In only 6 months, Castillo’s cabinet picks were threatened and forced to resign.

~During this time, congress had blocked a law that would’ve allowed a new plurinational constitution from being voted on in Peru, as had been done in Bolivia and Ecuador to recognize Indigenous autonomy and necessary social economic standards to solve rampant poverty

~Castillo had lost support of the left, including his former party Free Peru, the center, and the people for not passing his reforms and due to the media coverage that compared Castillo with terrorism. At this time Castillo’s approval was only 24%. But Congress had just 11%

 

[Pohemi]

Request for clarity in thread title by adding 'Peruvian' please and thanks

 

[KMFJD]

Protests have erupted all over the country

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1602034537999241217

interesting negotiations

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604139597029597185

jeez it's getting bad

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604209035913330697

 

[tweaker2]

It's not like our own USA is too far off from being turned into a state of chaos what with the Repubs executing an insurrection, their leadership being complicit in that act of treason and the party faithful not doing a single thing toward policing up the mess they made at the Capitol. It took the Democrats to hold their president and their complicit party leadership to make them accountable for their actions while the rank and file members supported their insurrectionists by their silence.

I really do hope the Peruvians can withstand the assault on their democracy just as we in the USA are attempting to do the same by preventing the Republicans from corrupting the way we elect our national leadership into sham elections the same as Russia and China have done.

 

[tweaker2]

dp

 

[tweaker2]

tp

 

[KMFJD]

Peru orders Mexico's ambassador out as diplomatic spat deepens

Peru declared Mexico's ambassador to Lima "persona non grata" and ordered him to leave the country on Tuesday, Peru's foreign minister announced, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two nations after Peru ousted Pedro Castillo as president.

www.reuters.com

Peru is expelling the Mexican ambassador for granting asylum to Castillo's family

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1605572200915816449

 

[KMFJD]

Peru lawmakers propose bill to strip Indigenous people of protections

Proposal to dismantle existing reserves for ‘uncontacted’ Indigenous groups quietly pushed amid ongoing political chaos

www.theguardian.com

good ol' dictatorships....almost always fucking with the less fortunate

 

[Jaskalas]

Peru is expelling the Mexican ambassador for granting asylum to Castillo's family

The hell they doing going after the man's family?
That's some evil !@#$ right there.

 

[sandorski]

The hell they doing going after the man's family?
That's some evil !@#$ right there.

They are lesser. They even want to pass the law stating it.

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1612789721708793857

Indigenous communities are still blockading a lot of major highways going to Lima

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1615768607002075137

things could get a bit out of control tomorrow