Coup in Peru & Latin America Fights Dollar Hegemony

The #coup in #Peru last week was similar to the U.S.-backed parliamentary coup that removed Pakistani PM #ImranKhan from office in April.

Khan recently survived an assassination attempt.

• “How much do you think the U.S. is involved in this? And are there ways to tell?”
• Lee Camp asks Benjamin Norton about the legislative coup that removed Peruvian President Pedro Castillo from office last week.

Peru’s far right never allowed Pedro Castillo to govern.

A week after Castillo entered office, the military forced his anti-imperialist, socialist foreign minister #HéctorBéjar to resign. This happened multiple times to ministers in his cabinet, undermining his leadership.

Peru’s far-right Congress started the campaign to depose Pedro Castillo as soon as he came to power in 2021. They had tried twice before they succeeded on December 7.

#Castillo had the constitutional right to dissolve Congress. It had been done by the right-wing before.

As president, Pedro Castillo faced heavy opposition from the far-right powers that dominated the Peruvian Congress.

Peru’s now-deposed President Pedro Castillo won the presidency after gaining notoriety for organizing a teachers’ strike.

A lot of political power in Latin America is still in the hands of the descendants of mostly-European colonizers.

Whenever indigenous communities win political power in Latin America – as seen in Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, and beyond – they face a backlash from their colonizers.

Last week, there were two coups targeting leftist Latin American leaders. They show how the #neoliberal regime change playbook has grown beyond simple military violence.

Ben Norton and Lee Camp explain what happened to Pedro Castillo in Peru.

Watch the full interview on BT-Headline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1b95SGUp0&t=1s