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1. Pedro Castillo appoints a Marxist intellectual as Foreign Minister2. The military (navy) forces the govt to remove him, they install a new guy 3. New guy signs a deal with USAID Voters' wishes annulled ☑️ pic.twitter.com/StFqGfBsjz— Ollie Vargas (@OVargas52) September 4, 2021

I don't like this. I hope Castillo and Peru Libre can learn from the examples of Venezuela and Bolivia and build power outside the government.

    • FidelCastro [he/him]M
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      3 years ago

      Likely not formally. Not certain on the details, but this could be Castillo making concessions when he really shouldn’t be. I’m hoping there’s details I’m not aware of and that he knows that revolutions are not made with silk gloves.

      Handing a part of your military to someone sympathetic to the American state department is not a good idea.

      • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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        3 years ago

        Don't people keep complaining his associates are shining path sympathizers or something? probably just propaganda but I'm sure they know their history, but if you aren't in any position to stop the military demands you don't want to get shot by putting up meaningless resistance. it was a close election Castillo can't rely on the masses to fight against the military like Bolivia

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I’m sure they know their history,

          How much history does the average Bob knows? Yea, that

          • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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            3 years ago

            well if you lived in Latin America I think the average person would know about right wing coups

            • RNAi [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Yeah and a lot of people are ok with them cuz we stupid

        • FidelCastro [he/him]M
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          3 years ago

          Don’t people keep complaining his associates are shining path sympathizers or something?

          I think this last guy got removed because he had said in the past that he thought the Shining Path was funded by the US.

        • Vncredleader
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          3 years ago

          His associates had been more or less enemies of Shining Path and the military, think community defense among indigenous peasantry. The slander is particularly gross because of that, buying into Shining Path's claim to represent the natives as justification for murdering or discrediting them....which Shining Path also does to them

    • AvgMarighellaEnjoyer [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      no, but they can threaten to do shit (namely a coup) until the government caves in. this is pretty common throughout Latin America as our armed forces still have a cold war mindset.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Eh the behavior is previous to the Cold War, like inherent to "democracies". Worldwide.