Posted on 11/09/2020 7:54:29 PM PST by blueplum
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru’s Congress voted to oust President Martin Vizcarra on Monday in an impeachment trial over corruption allegations, the second such effort to remove him in a matter of months.
The opposition-dominated Congress achieved the 87-vote threshold out of 130 needed to oust the centrist leader over accusations that he accepted bribes as a governor from companies that won public works contracts.
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to quote US News and World Report, "The political crisis comes in the midst of the fight against the pandemic - with Peru having one of the world's worst per capital death rates - and with the mining country headed for its deepest economic contraction in a century.":
women, children and copper hardest hit
“women, children and copper hardest hit”
Or maybe China hasn’t the hold on truth in Peru that it thought.
I have the conceit of a typical American.
I saw the headline that Peru Congress was voting in favor of the ouster of....”
...And I was so sure the subject was going to be Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
I have to remember, other countries have their own concerns.
Most of the smaller one could give a flip what happens over here. If they don’t have direct trade relations with us, they don’t have much reason to care.
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