Inter-American Watch Monday, November 29th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Perú The suspicious meetings of Pedro Castillo in Breña A house in the Sarratea passage of the Breña district, in Lima, which president Pedro Castillo used as an elections headquarters, continues to be today -four months after he assumed the Presidency- a meeting point ith senior…
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are three acknowledged dictatorships and Bolivia is the disguised dictatorship that still imposes its counterfeiting of democracy. These four regimes comprise one single system. Because of their violation of human rights, their electoral supplantation, protection to narcotics’ trafficking and other crimes, they are the subject of sanctions that far from eliminating…
Inter-American Watch Friday November 26th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Perú Peru lawmakers present motion to impeach president Castilllo Opposition lawmakers in Peru, including from the party of narrowly defeated right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, presented a motion in Congress on Thursday seeking to remove leftist President Pedro Castillo. The motion, citing “moral inability” to govern,…
Inter-American Watch Friday November 26th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Perú Peru lawmakers present motion to impeach president Castilllo Opposition lawmakers in Peru, including from the party of narrowly defeated right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, presented a motion in Congress on Thursday seeking to remove leftist President Pedro Castillo. The motion, citing “moral inability” to govern,…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday November 24th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Perú Peru’s congressional committee declares Evo Morales persona non grata The Foreign Relations Committee approved to “Declare Juan Evo Morales Ayma persona non grata in our country for his negative political activism in Peru and his evident interference and in the political, social and economic agenda…
Inter-American Watch Monday, November 22nd, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Perú Peru’s Castillo shut down 4 mines, citing ecological impact and local protests Peruvian Prime Minister Mirtha Vasquez sparked a controversy with the key mining sector on Friday night, saying a group of four mines in the Andean Ayacucho region would not be allowed any extensions…
Inter-American Watch Friday 19th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru Fearing authoritarianism, young Peruvians battle constitutional change A new charter was a campaign promise of president Pedro Castillo, a former elementary school teacher. His critics worry he plans to lead Peru down the path of other Latin American countries where democracy has withered. From the…
Inter-American Watch Wednesday November 17th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru Active social conflicts in Peru edge up Active social conflicts in Peru grew for a third consecutive month in October when 148 such cases were registered, which also marked a monthly high for the year, according to the latest social conflicts report from the…
Faced with total control of power by the regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, where violation of human rights has been institutionalized, there is no rule of law or check and balances of public powers; neither free nor fair elections, and the political oppositions have been turned into functional or are simply hostages, the…
Inter-American Watch Monday November 15th, 2021 (Casto Ocando, Editor) Peru Pedro Castillo’s popularity drops dramatically: just 35% support his government, 57% disapproves These figures represent a drop of up to seven percentage points compared to last October, when it was 42%, in the most recent poll by Ipsos-El Comercio newspaper. In addition, disapproval increased 9…
