Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has been impeached by right-wing forces in Congress, the final act in a 17-month-long destabilisation campaign, reports Ana Zorita.
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Pedro Castillo came to power on a leftist platform with the support of Peru鈥檚 poorest people. In response, anti-democratic forces and their powerful capitalist backers have dedicated themselves to ousting Castillo ever since, writes Ben Radford.
Protests erupted after Peru鈥檚 Constitutional Court reinstated a 2017 pardon granted to imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, reports Ben Radford.
Since Peruvian president Pedro Castillo鈥檚 electoral victory in June, right-wing and anti-democratic forces have continued to campaign to聽remove him from office, reports Ben Radford.
After a series of setbacks in 2015-19 suggested to many observers that the era of leftist governance in Latin America was over, the picture today is very different. A recent Alborada forum looked at聽what lies behind the Latin American left鈥檚 resurgence.
Pedro Castillo, leader of the left-wing Peru Libre party, was sworn in as Peru鈥檚 president on July 28, reports Ben Radford. Since then, his government has faced a campaign of destabilisation from the right-wing opposition.
The campaign to overturn Peru鈥檚 presidential election results is one of 鈥渦nconventional warfare鈥, report Jos茅 Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay Prashad.
Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets in Lima and other cities to defend the presidential electoral victory of socialist candidate Pedro Castillo. People's Dispatch reports.
Jos茅 Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay Prashad look at what's behind attempts by Peru's far-right 鈥 with the aid of the United States 鈥 to overturn the election of leftist presidential candidate聽Pedro Castillo.
Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo, leader of the Free Peru party and former school teacher, won the final round of the Peruvian presidential elections. Ben Radford reports.
Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo had unexpected success in the first round of Peru's presidential elections, reports Ben Radford.
New Peru Movement party leader聽Veronika Mendoza, explains what鈥檚 behind the current unrest in Peru.
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