Peruvian President Pedro Castillo should be a "dramatic president" in the world since Trump - this president, who has been in office for only 18 months, chose to "show off" with the opposition-controlled Congress on December 7, announced the dissolution of the Peruvian Congress, and ordered the restructuring of the entire judicial system. He also promised to reselect Congress within 9 months and amend the constitution.
Castillo's series of operations are simply "presidential rebellion" in global public opinion and the Peruvian Congress, because this series of political actions of "showdown" belong to " unconstitutional ", and no military, police or even any government official has implemented this.
In short, Castillo carried out a so-called "coup" that "can't leave the presidential palace" - in the global public opinion field, this Castillo's dramatic behavior is called a "self-coup", which means a coup in which the supreme leader tries to seize "power".
So the question is, is Castillo really the president "rebelling"?
is unconstitutional, because Castillo's series of operations are indeed not in line with the Peruvian Constitution.
but it is far from being called "rebellion", and the people of Peru also stood up and shouted for him in their own voice.
Just before Castillo announced a series of political actions such as "dissolution of Congress" on December 7, the Peruvian Congress began the process of impeaching the president. Since the opposition's right and center-right major alliances controlled 90 seats in Congress, the president's impeachment case was quickly passed, and Castillo was forced to flee in a hurry, but was arrested by the prosecutor halfway.
And this almost ridiculous "self-coup" farce quickly caused chaos in Peru after Castillo's arrest!
Countless Peruvian people, stand up and take to the streets to defend their elected president!
From the capital Lima to the Peru history long-standing Inca Empire Historical ruins Machu Picchu , from the southern Arequipa to the northern coastal metropolis Trujillo, and even remote small towns have suffered from the impact.
support Castillo's Peruvians took to the streets to protest the unfair treatment of Congress toward Castillo. After Castillo was arrested for stepping down from the field, the current president, Dina Boluarte, who was succeeded by Vice President, passed emergency measures requested by Defense Minister Alberto Otárola - suspending civil liberties rights such as freedom of assembly and transit for 30 days.
However, Peru's voters who support Castillo originally believed that Castillo's impeachment and arrest were the establishment denied their vote results, which directly further intensified the conflict between protesters and the military and police.
Protesters used wooden sticks to fight against explosion-proof police on the streets...
The military and police in a queue released tear gas to the rushing crowds of protesters...
Once Castillo's deputy, and now President Bolualte, has become the "big beneficiary" and "master behind the scenes" in the eyes of protesters. Her large photos were therefore prepared to be burned in public by protesters. Although the fierce and violent protesters were not the opponents to suppress the military and police, the deafening slogan of "Guarding Castillo" was accompanied by the thrown stones and the thick smoke from lit street obstacles, they headed towards the military and police who were suppressing the demonstration. Such a chaotic situation as
is happening in most towns in Peru.
Castillo's supporters' anger is understandable, because this indigenous president can be said to be a "forever" figure in Peru's history.
Peru is a country with relatively binary ethnic composition, with urban residents mainly white, black and mixed races.The places outside the city are mainly rural areas composed of indigenous people left over from the Inca Empire - among which, the rural Inca accounts for about two-thirds of the total population of Peru.
However, although the population of indigenous people is larger, there has never been a president in Peru under democratic politics. Political military and police have always been monopolized by white people and the elite. It was not until Castillo became president that the "curse" that indigenous people cannot become presidents.
Castillo can be said to be a very typical native origin. He grew up in a rural family with eight siblings. Although the local area has the largest gold mine in South America, their family lives in unfinished houses, and even the most basic facilities in the village are lacking.
In order to be able to go to college, Castillo took advantage of the holidays to work in the capital Lima with his father. He worked as a toilet cleaner, sold newspapers, and worked as a construction site worker. He finished his college courses step by step by step.
In fact, Castillo was very far apart from the position of president. After graduating from college, he became a teacher in his hometown. After that, he was dissatisfied with the inability of the "Peruvian Education Workers Single Alliance" to protect the rights and interests of teachers, so he started a new foundation in 2016 and established the "Peru National Federation of Education Workers" and officially entered the political arena.
2021 Peru Right-wing Alliance launched Fujimori Keiko as presidential candidate, which caused dissatisfaction with the left because his father was a former dictator in Peru. Castillo entered politics only in 2016 and was favored by voters with clean experience, so he became the actual leader of the left-wing major league and eventually won the election with a slight advantage in the 2021 Peru election.
However, the barely winning ultimately laid the foreshadowing of Castillo's defeat today.
Because the major alliance composed of the right and center right controls 90 seats in the Peruvian Congress, while the major alliance with the left wing only 40, which means "disagreement between the government and the court", Castillo became a lame president as soon as he came to power, and the contradictions have been pointed at the beginning.
However, Castillo's political experience has been short, lacks experience in political work, and is not in line with the concept of the Free Peru Party where he is located, so the support from the party is not enough - it is obvious that Castillo replaced dozens of cabinet ministers in 18 months, promoted military and police officers in violation of regulations, and appointed people who were questioned as cabinet ministers.
plus the "Red Motherland faction" and Castillo in the left-wing major alliance are quite dirty - behind the "Peruvian Education Workers Single Alliance" is the "Red Motherland faction" providing support.
But even though the left-wing major alliance is so divided and the right-wing major alliance occupies the majority of Congress, Castillo lacks experience in political mediation. In fact, before this round of Peru's political crisis, international public opinion did not believe that the presidential impeachment case in the name of "moral deficiency" would really force Castillo to step down.
Because the right-wing alliance is actually not inferior to the left-wing alliance.
At the same time, before this impeachment, Castillo had experienced two impeachment cases in his short one and a half term, and both of them were successfully involved in the sinister pass.
Finally, this chaos in Peru may not end due to a thirty-day state of emergency and the promise of the current President Bolualte to be early election. After all, what really put Peru in chaos is precisely because the various ethnic groups in the country cannot form a broad social consensus, and interest groups are difficult to achieve even the compromise to maintain stability.
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