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        <h1 class="reader-title">‘I Come From the Quarries,’ Peru’s
          President Castillo Says</h1>
        November 27, 2021</div>
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              <p>On Saturday, Peru's President Pedro Castillo regretted
                the skirmishes promoted by opposition lawmakers, who are
                interested in "destabilizing his government."</p>
              <p>On Thursday, the opposition benches from the Popular
                Force (FP), Popular Renovation (RP), and Move Forward
                (AP) parties presented a vacancy motion to be analyzed
                by the Parliament.</p>
              <p>"Just when today we have worked hard to recover gas for
                all Peruvians, certain small groups behind closed doors
                come to ask and want to destabilize the Government,"
                President Castillo said.</p>
              <p>The leftist president made the statements at the
                opening of the VII National Meeting of Rural Workers
                Union in Yurimaguas municipality, where he announced the
                installation of an office to attend to this sector's
                needs.</p>
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                  <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Peru's new leftist President
                    Pedro Castillo used his first ever speech at the
                    United Nations to call for a "social transformation"
                    that guarantees not just civil and political rights,
                    but also economic and social rights to healthcare,
                    education, housing, and dignified work <a
                      href="https://t.co/YZpbSbI7t6">pic.twitter.com/YZpbSbI7t6</a></p>
                  — Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a
href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1441447142577561601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
                    24, 2021</a> </blockquote>
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              <p>The vacancy motion was presented by lawmaker Patricia
                Chirinos, who will need 52 votes to achieve the debate
                of her proposal. If agreed, the president would attend a
                plenary session to answer a series of questions from the
                congressmen.</p>
              <p>Among the grounds to remove the rural teacher from his
                presidential seat, opposition lawmakers pointed out
                ongoing investigation on alleged money laundering,
                especially the misuse of public funds by the Junin's
                Regional Government in his party Free Peru (PL) 2021
                electoral campaign.</p>
              <p>"They are not going to teach me. They are not going to
                give me lessons of struggle because I come from those
                quarries... Why don't they go out to survey in
                Yurimaguas? Why don't they come to survey in the deepest
                towns?," President Castillo said.</p>
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                  <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a
                      href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Peru?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Peru</a>
                    | President Pedro Castillo launched the "second
                    agricultural reform" which is a development program
                    that will provide roads, technology and technical
                    advice to farmers. <a
                      href="https://t.co/EWEBLJNCoO">pic.twitter.com/EWEBLJNCoO</a></p>
                  — teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) <a
href="https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1445802508387958792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October
                    6, 2021</a> </blockquote>
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