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Political Crisis In Peru

Post by Riddick » 12-08-2022 03:40 PM

Peru’s stunning political crisis grinded forward Thursday, as former President Pedro Castillo faced a rebellion charge in court following a failed attempt to close a hostile congress, and his successor looked for ways to unite the country behind institutions gutted by endemic corruption and mistrust.

In just three tumultuous hours Wednesday, 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.

By nightfall Wednesday, Castillo was being held in the same giant police station housing reviled former President Alberto Fujimori, whose closing of Congress 30 years ago with tanks and soldiers was a far more robust show of force than Castillo’s enfeebled moves to temporarily dismiss lawmakers and rule by decree.

Dina Boluarte, a 60-year-old lawyer, was sworn in as Peru’s first female president. She said her first order of business would be to address corruption, ostensibly what led to Castillo’s downfall. But she takes office with a weak mandate and no party and hanging over the political crisis is the question of what to do with Castillo.

Once in office, Castillo immediately stepped onto a no-holds-barred political battlefield in Peru, the South American country now on its sixth president in six years. The last one, Francisco Sagasti, had been appointed by Congress just months before Castillo’s shocking victory.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Castillo had committed “political suicide” by weaponizing a seldom-used clause of the constitution to combat his adversaries in Congress, who he said never allowed Castillo to govern.

"Anti-democracy can’t be fought with more anti-democracy,” he said, echoing similar comments by Brazil’s incoming president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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