Down in Lima is where the action is. Peru is one of those countries where the Executive and the Legislature try to dissolve each other. Guess who won this time around.

American Thinker ^ | 12/08/2022 | Silvio Canto Jr.

[SeekAndFind]

For several weeks, President Pedro Castillo of Peru has been at war with the Legislature, and they finally had enough of the leftist's ways.  So they took action today:

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Peru's Congress voted to oust President Pedro Castillo in an impeachment trial on Wednesday, hours after he plunged the country into a constitutional crisis by attempting to dissolve the legislature by decree.

Ignoring Castillo's attempt to shut down Congress, lawmakers moved ahead with the previously planned impeachment trial, with 101 votes in favor of removing him, six against and 10 abstentions. The result was announced with loud cheers and the legislature called Vice President Dina Boluarte to take office.

Peru's national police shared an image on Twitter of Castillo sitting unrestrained at a police station after the vote to remove him and said that it had "intervened" to fulfill its duties. It referred to Castillo as "ex-president". It was unclear if he had been detained.

So Pedro is out, and Dina is in, and most Peruvians are probably sick and tired of the whole show.

Castillo is not new to controversy.  They've tried to oust him twice since 2021.

According to Andrea Moncada, a Peruvian journalist and political analyst currently based in the U.K., the situation is more complicated than just replacing the president:

The Castillo government, thus far, has not proved to be the threat to the private sector that it was feared to be. In fact, it has largely maintained the same fiscal and macroeconomic management that's been in place since the structural adjustment policies implemented in the 1990s.

opposition.

[cuz1961]

This is the democratic process

that Adam Shift painted as a “ coup”

to try and smear trump with.

That guy is a demon wearing an Adam suit.

[ModelBreaker]

Who controls the military there? That determines the result.

[robowombat]

Strange country indeed. How did a large, very well organized terrorist/guerilla movement that was proceeding from rural backward areas into organizing the huge Lima conurbation (Shining Path) just roll up die just because its leader ‘Comrade Gonzalo’ got captured? Real question.

[vladimir998]

If you read about what happened with Gonzalo after he was arrested, you’ll see that he made a deal with the government. He told his followers the war was over (this was in broadcasts over TV and radio) and called on them to lay down their arms. In exchange he got some creature comforts in prison and they promised he would not be Epsteined. That’s why he was able to live in prison from 1992 until 2021 when he died.

[moovova]

That’s a pretty significant F/U.

[bitt]

P

[robowombat]

It is amazing his liuetenants didn’t simply these directions by saying the ‘great leader’ was operating under duress in the hands of the hated enemy and therefore nothing he said or wrote should be obeyed. The battle for freedom continues, if it takes a century it must go on. Viva la lucha!