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The U.S. Egged on the Coup in Peru
On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru. His lawyers went over spreadsheets that showed Castillo would triumph over a motion in...
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Peru Civil Society Calls for National Strike as Unelected President Declares...
Organized labor and progressive civil society groups in Peru are calling for a national strike as unelected interim President Dina Boluarte imposes a 30-day state of emergency in a bid to quell...
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A Massacre in Peru: Death Toll Tops 17 as Protests Mount After Ouster &...
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Peru, where mass protests are intensifying following the ouster and jailing of President Pedro Castillo. According to the news agency EFE, at least nine protesters...
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Why Peru Has Had 7 Presidents in 6 Years
In just over six years, Peru has had seven different presidents. The period between July 2016 and December 2022 has been a time of deep political instability. This chaos is largely due to Peru’s deeply...
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Peru in Flames
Twenty-one dead. That’s the cost so far of the political crisis caused by the right-wing impeachment push that was followed the declaration by Pedro Castillo announcing the closure of Congress and the...
View ArticleSeeking Relief from Oppression, Peruvians Resist Castillo Removal and Wait
“Pedro Castillo emerged from that deep, excluded, and marginalized Peru that has been the primordial object of nefarious consequences of treason by the elites,” according to an observer. Castillo was...
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Protests Continue in Peru as Newly Installed Government Cracks Down After Coup
On December 7, a soft coup took place in Peru involving the impeachment of the country’s President Pedro Castillo by the right-wing national Congress and his arrest by local police in Lima. Since then,...
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Overthrow of President Castillo Exposes the Race and Class Divide in Peru
Unfulfilled campaign promises, accusations of corruption, and even an attempted self-coup cannot turn the many supporters of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo against him. The president has probably...
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‘They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho
While helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho on December 15. This action was in response to a national...
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Apartheid Drives the Conflict in Peru
Nearly 50 protesters have been killed by police in Peru following the removal from office of President Pedro Castillo six weeks ago. Peru analyst Francesca Emanuele says that the conflict is...
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Peruvian Workers Call for a National Strike Against Boluarte
On Thursday, thousands of citizens who are marching from all regions of Peru to Lima will join the general strike called by the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP). They demand the resignation of...
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Persecuted Peruvian Activist Speaks on the Ongoing Struggle Against the Coup...
Last week, Rocío Leandro Melgar, president of the Front in Defense of the People of Ayacucho was arrested in Huamanga, Peru. Melgar and two others from the organization’s board have been accused of...
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Allegations of Genocide Return to Peru
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has placed she who claims the country’s presidency, Dina Boluarte under investigation for crimes including genocide, resulting from her government’s treatment of...
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Peru: Amid Nationwide Rebellion, Why Hasn’t Boluarte Resigned?
With protests to demand early elections intensifying in Peru, a request by de facto president Dina Boluarte to bring them forward to December was rebuffed by the right-wing controlled Congress, on...
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‘We’ll Fight Until the End’: A Journey Through the Centre of Peru’s Uprising
One by one, the rebel campesinos clambered up to the improvised podium they had built atop a 6ft earth barricade, to declare their determination to topple the president of Peru. “Brothers and sisters,...
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Peru: “A Process of Self-Organisation Has Begun Across the Country”
Peru’s right-wing controlled Congress blocked a third motion to bring forward national elections on February 2, despite de facto president Dina Boluarte — under pressure from a nationwide rebellion —...
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Peru: No Turning Back
Peru has reached a point of no return from a systemic and structural crisis that is 200 years old. Now there is only one Andean Pachakuti and an Amazonian Ipámamu left [referring to particular...
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‘We Will Die for Our Motherland’| Peru Fights Back against Boluarte Coup...
On Dec. 7, 2022, democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo was ousted in a congressional coup and replaced by his Vice President, Dina Boluarte. Since Castillo’s ouster, millions of Peruvians...
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Peru and the People’s Defenses
(Image by Julie Maas) Following the January mobilization to protest the removal from office of Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo, unofficial reports indicate continuing resistance to the Dina...
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Peru’s Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (But Full US...
A study by a leading polling firm in Peru found that the country’s coup-plotting congress has an approval rating of just 6%, with a staggering 91% disapproval. The South American nation’s unelected...
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