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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.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I wonder if he could call in military support from allies (China if they're willing, but as it's not really their style maybe Russia, or Venezuela?) to keep the military from rebelling while he forces out right wing ideologues and replaces them with socialists?

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Didn't Russia send troops to Venezuela when Guaido was trying to do a coup?

        I feel like China generally doesn't like to get militarily involved in anything, which makes sense given how much of the Soviet economy had to be devoted to military spending to protect themselves from the West.

          • s0ykaf [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            with Lula winning in Brazil next year, that should help too.

            just a little though, lula is already going around the country making deals with the most disgusting right wingers (as usual), i expect his next term to be even more neolib than the first

            still voting tho... in the current situation if lula keeps the universities running i'm honestly good (don't call me a lib i'm just entering college and i'd like to be able to finish it)

              • s0ykaf [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                succdem traitor who destroys left wing credibility

                the vast majority of communists here pretty much consider him as such already

                he has always been a liberal and openly so, it's just that his rhetoric used to be strong and the propaganda pounced on it

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        China did that with the Indian communist organizations during the farmer protests last year to urge them not to split lol

        That is a huge problem with Indian Communists