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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Latin America Rejects Coup In Peru, While US Supports Unelected Regime<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Ben Norton, Multipolarista - December 22, 2022<br></div>
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<img src="cid:ii_lc0s81kn0" alt="image.png" width="392" height="221"><br><h2>At least 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have condemned the coup in Peru, backing President Pedro Castillo.</h2>
<p><strong>The unelected regime, which has killed dozens of protesters, has the staunch support of the US and the region’s right wing.</strong></p>
<p>More than a dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have
condemned the coup in Peru and backed democratically elected President
Pedro Castillo.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the US government has staunchly supported the coup regime,
which has suspended civil liberties, imprisoned Castillo for 18 months
without trial, and unleashed extreme violence on Peruvian protesters,
killing dozens and wounding hundreds.</p>
<p><br>
At least 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have publicly
expressed support for Peru’s President Castillo, including:</p>
<p><strong>Mexico (the second-most <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/988453/number-inhabitants-latin-america-caribbean-country/">populous country in Latin America</a>), Colombia
(the third-most populous country), Argentina (the fourth-most
populous), Venezuela (the sixth-most
populous), Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba, Antigua and
Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Lucia, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines</strong></p>
<p>On the other side, Peru’s unelected coup regime has the strong
support of the United States and Canada, as well as Brazil’s far-right
Jair Bolsonaro administration and the right-wing governments in Ecuador,
Uruguay, and Costa Rica.</p>
<p>Chile, led by liberal President Gabriel Boric, is the only country
with an ostensibly left-of-center government that has joined the US and
the region’s right wing in backing the coup in Peru.</p>
<p>Peru’s coup regime also has the support of Washington’s Organization of American States (OAS), which acts as an <a href="https://multipolarista.com/2021/11/19/nicaragua-oas-us-coup/">instrument of US foreign policy</a>.</p>
<h3>Peru’s US-Backed Coup Regime Imposes Brutal Authoritarian Rule, Bringing Back Elements Of Fujimori Dictatorship</h3>
<p>Since <a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/10/peru-coup-president-pedro-castillo/">Castillo was overthrown in the December 7 coup</a>, Peru’s unelected de facto leader Dina Boluarte has cracked down harshly, sending the military and police to kill protesters.</p>
<p>State security services have <a href="https://twitter.com/Laantigona/status/1604145126703599619">raided the offices</a> of
social movements, labor unions, and left-wing political parties and
arrested their leaders, targeting the Campesino Confederation of Peru,
the Peruvian Socialist Party, and the leftist party Nuevo Perú.</p>
<p>Numerous activists have reported that the coup regime is <a href="https://twitter.com/NuevoPeruMov/status/1604138175403679744">planting weapons</a> and other materials in order to falsely accuse protesters of “terrorism.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This witness at Peru’s Peasant Confederation says
police raided their office, detained them, and planted weapons and
other materials that do not belong to them</p>
<p>Peru’s coup regime and oligarch-controlled media are trying to frame protesters as “terrorists”<a href="https://t.co/am8L9ztYiY">https://t.co/am8L9ztYiY</a></p>
<p>— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1604199322274365440?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">December 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Peru’s US-backed coup regime has also brought back war criminals who
worked in the far-right dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori in the 1990s.</p>
<p>The man appointed chief of Peru’s notorious National Directorate of
Intelligence (DINI), Juan Carlos Liendo O’Connor, previously served in
the feared National Intelligence Service (SIN) in the Fujimori
dictatorship. Liendo O’Connor’s boss was <a href="https://larepublica.pe/politica/gobierno/2022/12/20/gobierno-nombro-como-jefe-de-la-dini-a-exoficial-del-sin-de-vladimiro-montesinos-juan-carlos-liendo-dina-boluarte-julio-salazar-monroe/">sentenced to 35 years in prison</a> for murdering and disappearing left-wing activists.</p>
<p>Today, Liendo O’Connor, the coup regime’s new intelligence chief, is
borrowing the same tactics used by the Fujimorista dictatorship. He
demonizes protesters as “terrorists,” thereby justifying the use of
violence against them.</p>
<h3>US State Department Reiterates Support For Peru’s Violent Coup Regime</h3>
<p>While Peru’s coup regime is killing protesters, suspending civil
liberties, and bringing back war criminals from the Fujimori
dictatorship, the United States is praising it for supposedly defending
“democracy.”</p>
<p>Coup leader Boluarte held a friendly call with US Secretary of State
Antony Blinken on December 16. Her office boasted that he “reiterated
the support of the United States.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es">La presidenta de la república, <a href="https://twitter.com/DinaErcilia?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@DinaErcilia</a> Boluarte, dialogó telefónicamente con el Secretario de Estado de <a href="https://twitter.com/LaCasaBlanca?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@LaCasaBlanca</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@SecBlinken</a>, quien le reiteró el respaldo de los Estados Unidos al gobierno que lidera. <a href="https://t.co/dMn11CInxv">pic.twitter.com/dMn11CInxv</a></p>
<p>— Presidencia del Perú (@presidenciaperu) <a href="https://twitter.com/presidenciaperu/status/1603937971576705025?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">December 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The State Department confirmed this <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-peruvian-president-boluarte/">call in a readout</a>,
stating, “The United States looks forward to working closely with
President Boluarte on shared goals and values related to democracy,
human rights, security, anti-corruption, and economic prosperity.”</p>
<p>Washington did not mention the dozens of protesters who have been
killed and hundreds more who have been wounded by Boluarte’s unelected
coup regime.</p>
<p>CIA agent turned State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington
spoke with the coup leader to “reinforce our partnership and emphasize
U.S. support for a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous Peru.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@SecBlinken</a> spoke with Peruvian President <a href="https://twitter.com/DinaErcilia?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@DinaErcilia</a> today to reinforce our partnership and emphasize U.S. support for a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous Peru. <a href="https://t.co/kdztJZjGw1">https://t.co/kdztJZjGw1</a></p>
<p>— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1604491333389127682?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">December 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>14 Countries In Latin America And The Caribbean Condemn Peru’s US-Backed Coup Regime</h3>
<p>Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia published a joint statement
supporting President Castillo, who they recognized was democratically
elected by the people of Peru.</p>
<p>“For the world, it is not news that President Castillo Terrones,
since the day of his election, was victim of anti-democratic
harassment,” they wrote.</p>
<p>The government of Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) even announced a formal <a href="https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2022/12/14/el-presidente-pone-pausa-en-relacion-con-peru/">“pause” in its diplomatic relations</a> with Peru’s unelected regime.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia released
a joint statement supporting Peru’s elected President Pedro Castillo,
saying he is victim of “anti-democratic harassment,” following a
US-backed coup.</p>
<p>Gustavo Petro recognized it was a “parliamentary coup”<a href="https://t.co/pxyxM1hHpU">https://t.co/pxyxM1hHpU</a></p>
<p>— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1602782388270014468?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">December 13, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/19/colombia-petro-coup-peru-castillo/">Colombia’s President Petro</a> denounced
the ouster of Castillo as a “parliamentary coup.” He added that the
putsch is a warning for all elected left-wing leaders in Latin America.</p>
<p>Petro declared that “the Latin American oligarchy doesn’t want
progressivism,” and “what they can’t win at the ballot box, they are
trying to topple.”</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1604842136469639168?">.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the
left-wing economic and political bloc that consists of 10 countries in
Latin America and the Caribbean, released a similar statement supporting
Castillo.</p>
<p>“We reject the political trap created by the right-wing forces of
that country against the Constitutional President Pedro Castillo,
forcing him to take measures that were later used by his adversaries in
parliament to oust him from office,” ALBA wrote.</p>
<p>“We repudiate the repression by the law enforcement agencies against
the Peruvian people who are defending a government democratically
elected at the polls,” they added.</p>
<p>ALBA members include Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and the
Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts
and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1603777209352835073?">.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Honduras also emphasized its “<a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/13/honduras-coup-peru-pedro-castillo/">energetic condemnation of the coup d’etat</a>” against Peruvian President Castillo, stating that he represents the “sovereign will of the people.”</p>
<p>“Coups d’etat should not be carried out,” declared the left-wing
Honduran government of President Xiomara Castro, who restored democracy
in 2021 after 12 years of right-wing coup regimes sponsored by the
United States.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1602697725870489601?">.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Venezuela’s President Nicolás <a href="https://mppre.gob.ve/2022/12/08/peru-victima-plan-golpista-oligarquias/">Maduro made a powerful speech</a> denouncing the coup in Peru, stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>One sees what the Peruvian people are suffering. They
elect a teacher, President Pedro Castillo, and since the first moment of
the election, they don’t want to recognize his victory, they ignore the
victory.And at the end they were forced by reality to recognize his
victory as president, and once he was sworn in on July 28, 2021, they
begin to conspire to launch a parliamentary coup.And so begins the
attack and the wearing away, votes of condemnation against his
ministers, permanent harassment.…They led him to the extreme of trying
to dissolve the congress of Peru.And all the circumstances that we have
seen are the oligarchic elites who don’t allow a humble teacher to rise
to the presidency of Peru and try to govern for the people.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maduro said this is a message “that the extreme right is sending to
the popular and progressive movements: ‘We are not going to let them
govern.’”</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/CancilleriaVE/status/1601246692828844032?">.</a></p></blockquote>
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