In the last few hours Peru has experienced a political crisis that has resulted in the dismissal and subsequent arrest of Pedro Castillo, who until this Wednesday morning, December 7, was still president of the South American country.
After Castillo announced on national television, the dissolution of congress and the establishment of a “exception government” representatives of the entire political sphere described the measure as “coup”.
The effervescence and political tension increased even more when the Parliament of Peru declared the president vacant due to “moral incapacity”, that is, his dismissal, with 101 votes in favor, and decreed that the presidency assume the Vice President Dina Boluarte. While that was happening, Pedro Castillo He was intercepted by police vehicles that blocked the path of the car in which he was traveling and State Security agents proceeded to arrest him.
In what amounted to political chaos in Peru that broke out in just a few hours, the crisis that Pedro Castillo was going through went back months, where the Congress he had attempted to remove him twice, amid accusations of corruption and for “moral incapacity.”
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Even with these accusations, the leftist, the former teacher and farmer raised in a poor family in the rural Andes of Peruwas supported by several leaders of this political current on the continent.
The governments of Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia supported the continuity of the presidency of Pedro Castillodespite several criminal investigations and constant threats of removal.
Just a few days ago, his own Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorpresident of Mexico, insisted on supporting Castillo despite his constant affirmations that he does not have an opinion on the internal affairs of other countries.
“Of course, we are respectful of the decisions of each country, but there are many attempts to ignore him as president. And, in effect, he has been in office for a year and a half (heading the government) and has been around three or four (attempted removal) and this time they are accusing him of not being in good mental health, ”said the president.
The Mexican Executive asked that “it be understood that he (Castillo) won democratically and that it helps a country a lot to maintain governability, political stability.”
Even López Obrador suspended the summit of the Pacific Alliance which should have been held last Friday, given the refusal of the Peruvian Congress to allow Castillo to attend.
“I now have the presidency of this Pacific Alliance and I am going to hand it over to the president of Peru because it belongs to him. Since they prohibited him from leaving, the agreement was reached to go there and hand over the presidency to him, ”he commented.
The president of Mexico He even announced that he would travel to Lima on December 14 to participate in the summit of the Pacific alliance together with the other leaders of this commercial bloc: the Chilean gabriel boric and the Colombian Gustavo Petroin addition to the Ecuadorian William Lassowho seeks to join the organization.
During the vote for his removal in Congress, the only parliamentarians to reject the motion were Hamlet Echevarría, Margot Palacios, Janet Rivas and Jaime Quito, while Silvana Robles, Guido Bellido, Samuel Coayla, Elizabeth Taipe, Katy Ugarte, among others.
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For his part, Guillermo BermejoA congressman, a close ally of Castillo, had said that the president’s opponents will not stop until they return power to Lima’s traditional elites.
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