The authorship of the project to build a large port on the country’s coast is attributed to Peruvian admiral Juan Ribaudo. To do that, he took on the task of looking for the most suitable site and chose a piece of land in the small fishing port of Chancay located 70 km north of Lima. In 2011, the Volcan group ...
For unknown reasons, but surely linked to religious beliefs, human beings tend to revere death more than life. Of course, that varies in each civilization and even in each people. Many great characters in history are only revered after they have left this world, instead of recognizing their worth during life. In many cases, when someone has passed away, he ...
Guatemala Although in 2021 the United States Congress issued a decree that prohibited the delivery of funds to the armies of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras until there were improvements in the fight against corruption, the Department of Defense used a pretext to circumvent that decision to use unrestricted funds. The donation of J8 military vehicles that the United States ...
The protests in Peru after the impeachment of President of President Pedro Castillo are continuing. While the United States has established contact with the new installed President Dina Boluarte – in an obvious attempt to lend legitimation, several Latin American countries are insisting that Castillo continues to be the legitimate president. But the duration and radicalism of the protests indicate ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat The resistance against the US-backed coup continues in Peru. Imprisoned President Pedro Catillo took his supporters to the streets with the letters he wrote. As the conflict intensified, Castillo delivered the message of ‘continuing the fight against the USA’. Pedro Castillo was sacked and sent to prison in Peru, where a US-backed parliamentary coup took place, but ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The Peruvian political class has always possessed an intrinsic duplicity that characterizes and shapes it. Betrayal is in their genes since long gone times. The felony that is still part of their daily existence started already at the time of the conquest and colonization. Francisco de Pizarro, the one who betrayed Atahualpa, was in turn ...
The struggle for government in Peru is continuing. After the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo by the country’s Congress, Castillo’s supporters took to the streets. Protests erupted in different cities of the country. Protesters occupied Andahuaylas airport in the south of the country. Mine workers have been marching from southern parts of the country towards the capital Lima, where protesters ...
By Fernando Esteche In the last week, Peru has witnessed a change of presidency. President Pedro Castillo announced to dissolve the Congress, upon which the Congress itself substituted the President himself. While his Vice-President, Dina Boluarte assumed power. Castillo remains under custody being accused of corruption and coup d’etat, while thousands of Peruvians protest on the streets of the country ...
By Oscar Rotundo* On July 28, 2021, Pedro Castillo assumed the presidency of Peru after having defeated the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori in the second round by a narrow difference. Fujimori, daughter of the former president convicted of crimes against humanity and other political and economic crimes, was defeated in her third attempt to become president of the country. Pedro ...
A schoolteacher and a left-wing union leader will lead the new Peruvian government. The possibility of a future is opening up that incorporates the popular majorities and reverses the extractivist and dependency model. Castillo´s government will have to meet the high demands of the impoverished rural and urban masses that had been mobilized on different conflictive fronts. These conflicts are ...