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 symptomatic of Peru’s systematic exclusion of the poor and indigenous population from its political system.
Gregory Wilpert
Gregory Wilpert is a German-American sociologist, journalist, and activist who has covered Venezuela extensively for a wide variety of publications. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology (Brandeis University, 1994) and is author of the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the ChƔvez Government (Verso Books, 2007). He is co-founder of the website Venezuelanalysis.com, was director of the teleSUR English website, and host and managing editor for The Real News Network. Currently he works as deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
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Not difficult to understand the role of the US government in Peru if one knows only one thing, that the US government immediately recognized, endorsed the person who took over after President Castillo was replaced by Baluarte. Quite like the US declaring the defunct Guaidó “president” of Venezuela in place of the democratically elected President Maduro. Guaidó, of course, was never elected, he simply represented the interests of the oligarchy and the US’s business and government interests in Latin America.