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Peru
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 15, 2020, 2:14 pm
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Peru’s interim president resigns after deadly protests
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> Peru's interim president Manuel Merino has resigned after
deadly protests and a mass resignation from his cabinet. He took
on the role only five days ago after the former president Martin
Vizcarra was removed over bribery allegations, which he denies.
Tens of thousands of people have been protesting since Vizcarra
stepped down.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dehVxPIDh08
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Re: Peru
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 19, 2020, 12:15 pm
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Peru swears in third president in a week after Merino resigns
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> Peru has sworn in its newest president. He’s the third leader
in just one week. This dramatic turn of events follows days of
nationwide protests that forced former interim president Manuel
Merino to resign after two protesters were killed.
>
> Francisco Sagasti, the new interim president has called for
calm after violent clashes erupted earlier this week in Lima’s
iconic San Martin Plaza. But activists remain critical of the
government, which they regard as a parliamentary “coup.”
Peruvian journalist Luis Garate shares his eyewitness
perspective.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd2CDR_xPus
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Re: Peru
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 11, 2021, 3:03 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/peru-election-pedro-castillo-prepares-194256118.html
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> Pedro Castillo, the rural schoolteacher on the brink of
becoming Peru’s next president, wants to reshape the
Covid-battered country in the style of one of his Leftist idols
by seizing the profits of big business.
>
> Like Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, Castillo,
51, rose from humble beginnings in his country’s rural
hinterland to become a populist, rabblerousing union leader,
before then trampolining to national office.
>
> And just like Morales, Castillo is bent on reshaping his
country’s economy to favour the poor, in a deeply unequal
society divided between a largely white, urban elite and a
mestizo majority, of which the village schoolteacher is a
member.
>
> Yet Castillo has rattled investors and ordinary Peruvians
alike with scattergun promises to rewrite the constitution, ban
imports of any goods produced in Peru, and dedicate 20 per cent
of GDP to education and healthcare, a promise even left-wing
economists regard as far-fetched. During the runoff campaign, he
backtracked on some of those ideas but many doubt his sincerity.
> ...
> Another trait Castillo shares with Morales is his alleged
authoritarian tendencies. He refuses to speak ill of the Maduro
regime in Venezuela, has talked of abolishing the constitutional
tribunal, and his first government plan — he has now had several
— even cites Lenin insisting that the press cannot be free under
the “yoke of capital”.
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But will Castillo treat Israel like Morales does?
HTML https://www.ibtimes.com/israel-terrorist-state-bolivian-president-1644126
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Re: Peru
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 20, 2021, 10:34 pm
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A Trump imitator:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/peru-fujimori-cries-electoral-fraud-090019850.html
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> With 100% of the official vote counted, leftist Pedro Castillo
had 50.12% – and advantage of about 44,000 votes over his
far-right rival Keiko Fujimori. But Fujimori has claimed fraud,
challenging about 500,000 votes, calling for half to be
annulled, and obliging officials at Peru’s electoral board to
reexamine ballots – despite the lack of evidence of wrongdoing.
> ...
> Apparently inspired by Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat
at the US elections, Fujimori has led a string of marches
against “fraud” telling supporters at one rally: “The election
will be flipped, dear friends.”
>
> The three-time presidential candidate has already spent more
than a year in pre-trial detention, accused of receiving more
than $17m in illegal campaign funds and heading a criminal
organisation, and could face a 30-year jail term if convicted.
She denies the allegations.
>
> On Friday, Peru’s interim president Francisco Sagasti slammed
as “unacceptable” a letter signed by nearly a hundred retired
military officers urging the armed forces not to recognise
Castillo if he takes office. “They want to incite top commanders
of the Army, Navy, and Air force to break the rule of law,” he
said in an address to the nation.
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Also mentioned in the article:
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> In one ugly but not unusual case, the online news site Sudaca
published a private text messages between middle-class white men
in Lima who discussed how people from the highlands should “die
of hunger” and called for the return of Alberto Fujimori’s
alleged forced sterilisations which mostly targeted indigenous
women.
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When will leftists learn to use these methods against rightists?
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Re: Peru
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 7, 2021, 12:06 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/perus-indigenous-hope-voice-last-101542732.html
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> CARATA, Peru (Reuters) - Maxima Ccalla, 60, an indigenous
Quechua woman, has spent her life tilling the harsh soil in
Peru's Andean highlands, resigned to a fate far removed from the
vast riches buried deep beneath her feet in seams of copper,
zinc and gold.
>
> The Andean communities in Ccalla's home region of Puno and
beyond have long clashed with the mining companies that dig
mineral wealth out from the ground.
>
> In recent interviews, many said they felt discriminated
against and marginalized, and accused mining companies of
polluting their water and soil.
>
> But in a country still under the shadow of a colonial past,
the rise of an outsider politician, the son of peasant farmers,
is sparking hopes of change. It has also thrown a spotlight on
stark divides between the rural Andean highlands and remote
Amazon settlements, and the wealthier - and whiter - coastal
cities.
>
> Pedro Castillo, who wears a straw farmers hat and plays up his
humble village roots, has pledged to give a voice to Peru's
"forgotten" rural groups and redistribute mineral wealth in the
world's second largest producer of copper.
>
> "The looting is over, the theft is over, the assault is over,
the discrimination against the Peruvian people is over," he said
at a speech in Cuzco.
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I like this wording. It is important to emphasize who is
Peruvian and who is not.
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> More than a dozen leaders and activists from Quechua and
Aymara communities, scattered across the Andes, and others deep
in the Amazon rainforest hundreds of miles north, spoke to
Reuters candidly about the discrimination they face.
> ...
> Indigenous leaders told Reuters that they had decided to
support Castillo after he met with them to hear their demands
and pledged to protect indigenous lands and push for a new
constitution.
> ...
> "For decades, our land has been stolen by private companies,
concessioned by the government," she said. Some 200 years of
"colonialist, racist, classist and male chauvinist education"
will be difficult to undo, she added.
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Start by educating people to see the ugliness of:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_colonial_architecture
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateresque
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churrigueresque
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo
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Re: Peru
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: July 20, 2021, 8:29 am
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>
> Castillo, whose supporters included Peru’s poor and rural
citizens, defeated right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori by just
44,000 votes. Electoral authorities released the final official
results more than a month after the runoff election took place
in the South American nation.
>
> Wielding a pencil the size of a cane, symbol of his Peru Libre
party, Castillo popularized the phrase “No more poor in a rich
country.” The economy of Peru, the world’s second-largest copper
producer, has been crushed by the coronavirus pandemic,
increasing the poverty level to almost one-third of the
population and eliminating the gains of a decade.
> [...]
> Historians say he is the first peasant to become president of
Peru, where until now, Indigenous people almost always have
received the worst of the deficient public services even though
the nation boasted of being the economic star of Latin America
in the first two decades of the century.
> [...]
> Author Mario Vargas Llosa, a holder of a Nobel Prize for
literature, has said Castillo “represents the disappearance of
democracy and freedom in Peru.” Meanwhile, retired soldiers sent
a letter to the commander of the armed forces asking him not to
respect Castillo’s victory.
> [...]
> Over the past two decades, Peruvians have seen that the
previous political experience and university degrees of their
five former presidents did not help fight corruption. All former
Peruvian presidents who governed since 1985 have been ensnared
in corruption allegations, some imprisoned or arrested in their
mansions. One died by suicide before police could take him into
custody. The South American country cycled through three
presidents last November.
> [...]
> Castillo said his life was marked by the work he did as a
child with his eight siblings, but also by the memory of the
treatment that his illiterate parents received from the owner of
the land where they lived. He cried when he remembered that if
the rent was not paid, the landowner kept the best crops.
>
> “You kept looking at what you had sown, you clutched your
stomach, and I will not forget that, I will not forgive it
either,” he said.
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HTML https://apnews.com/article/business-health-peru-coronavirus-pandemic-df91f3cbd6de06f91344a6a3d54f3d1c
I don't know much about Castillo, but I did come across
something very interesting:
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> Proposed social policies from Castillo include creating
paramilitary groups and militarizing Peruvian youth in order to
promote a revolutionary experience, calling for citizens to arm
themselves in order to provide justice through "socialist
administration."[62] He has called for Peru to leave the
American Convention on Human Rights and to reinstate the death
penalty in the country.
> [...]
> Castillo defended the government of Nicolás Maduro in
Venezuela, describing it as "a democratic
government",[79][86][87] while his Free Peru party has shared
praise for the policies of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez.
>
> During his campaign, Castillo said he would pardon ethnic
nationalist Antauro Humala, a ethnocacerist and brother of
former President Ollanta Humala, who was sentenced to nineteen
years in prison after leading the capture of a police station in
Andahuaylas that resulted in the deaths of four police and one
gunman.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Castillo
Wow, look at this. Another New World anti-colonialist flag
modeled after the National Socialist flag!
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_the_ethnocacerist_movement.png/320px-Flag_of_the_ethnocacerist_movement.png
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> The Ethnocacerist movement (Spanish: Movimiento etnocacerista,
also sometimes referred to as the Movimiento Nacionalista
Peruano or "Peruvian Nationalist Movement") is a Peruvian ethnic
nationalist movement seeking the establishment of a proletarian
dictatorship led by the country's Indigenous communities and
their descendants. It draws on the history of Indigenous and
anticolonial movements, including those of Juan Velasco
Alvarado, Evo Morales, Abdel Nasser, Muammar Gaddafi and Che
Guevara. It is considered an Indigenist ideology.
> [...]
> Etnocacerism as a doctrine was begun by Ollanta Humala and
Antauro Humala in 1987 during the Internal War against the
Shining Path.[1] Etnocacerism began as a military doctrine and
organizing strategy, not a political doctrine, that was
contesting the military doctrine and strategic errors of the
Peruvian armed forces, which viewed the Indigenous countryside
as a foreign territory and colony. Ollanta Humala explains that
Etnocacerism began from the personal experiences of soldiers on
the field in clandestine study groups. While critical of high
military and political officials, it was not a conspiratorial
movement against these official. Rather, Etnocacerism was
developed to be an effective military doctrine that spoke to the
experiences of Indigenous peoples (Quechua, Aymara, Amazonians),
viewed the war as much a political campaign as a military one,
and would win over Indigenous peoples in contested territories
against the Shining Path.
> [...]
> Etnocacerists distinguish themselves from the both the
political right-wing (Free Markets, Liberalism) and
"Eurocentric" left-wing (European radical theories, Marxist
doctrine) in Peru. Being an opponent of Capitalism, Fascism, and
Marxism,[2] Etnocacerism seeks to create an organic Indigenist
ideology that comes from Peruvian history starting with the
earliest Indigenous civilizations and the philosophical
tradition of Peru starting from the Incas into the 21st century.
Their use of the slogan "ni derecha ni izquierda" traces itself
to Juan Velasco Alvarado's revolutionary military government
(1968-1975) which remained unaligned to either the US (First
World) or Soviet Union (Second World).[3] This position of
non-alignment and Third-Worldism meant looking for solutions in
Peruvian and Latin American history, such as the rebel hero
Tupac Amaru and writer José Carlos Mariátegui. Furthermore,
Progressive forces in the military and unions, including
Marxist–Leninist parties, were friendly with Velasco due to his
policies of nationalizing key industries, rural land reform, and
Indigenous cultural promotion.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocacerism
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