Dictatorship 101: How Not to Stage a Coup (the Castillo case in Peru)
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On 7 December Pedro Castillo, President of Peru, made a televised speech in which he announced the dissolution of Congress, a new emergency government, the opening of a constituent process and the reorganization of the entire judicial system. He was not empowered to do so and the main institutions of the country quickly condemned this attempted coup d'état.
However, the problem of Peru, until recently one of the great economic engines of Latin America, goes far beyond Castillo. In this video we tell you all the details about one of the most absurd and worst executed coup d'états in history and also the reasons why Peru is experiencing a huge political catastrophe.
#peru #latam #southamerica
Quite bold of him trying to start a coup without contacting the army first
Bold, naive or plain stupid... Nobody is sure but in the 48 hrs after it looked like the later.
@@LuisRomeroLopez bold naive or stupid? Yes
Dude wants to be a new Caesar, when in reality it's Augustus & Agrippa who should be studied, they were perfect opposites that complimented the other, they took power & then held it!
You should see the clowns Trump used for his coup attempt
@@badluck5647 those are quite hilarious tbh
Bro tryed to pull Palpatine on Republic but he forgot the complex evil plan part
It is like contacting the clones with the execute order 66 and being arrested for treason by the same clones lol
@@dennisrodriguez3689 he wanted to execute order 66 but accidentally ordered order 65
@@gabrielmora5092 lol
"execute order 66"
"huh whats that"
“Execute Order 66!”
“ *gets arrested* “
“Wait a second, this doesn’t look like Order 66-Urgh, yes. Yes it is, yes I-I meant 67. Execute order 67!”
Nothing more South American than the fleeing criminal president getting stuck in traffic
The criminals are in congress, here's the clue - the people rioting and the army shooting live rounds at them.
As a Peruvian, I can confirm this.
r/2latinamerica4u moment 🗿
ALL Latin American countries are going through the same " process". Pick a Country and take a look at the last ($)elections : same playbook. The places change to confuse even more the " audience"; but the goals ( results) are the same.
Y viva Latinamerica caraj*!
They were government agents, not traffic
I remember that dark day. My students asked me if they could be excused and leave earlier since curfew started at 10pm and they'd have to take public transport to get back to their homes in time... 3 hours later things were back as usual and we went out to eat some salchipapas afterward.
I was in Lima in 2010. Everything seemed so secure there at the time. How quickly things can change I guess
Lima balls 😂
@@Balls_on_Chin funny that Lima could also means five in Malay
im from lima, it is still very secure here, most violence happened in the south of the country (the zone where macchu picchu is), the remnants of shining path have pushed the population into revolt
@@nbarnechea the remanents of Shinning Path are just a handful of people, you cant blame the revolts on them
LIMA, SECURE?
Compared to what, Bangladesh?
Your report is not bad at all. There is one point, however, that has not been addressed appropriately in my view. If a president is elected in Peru in the second round, which in theory means he has gotten 50% of the votes in the second round, this does not mean he is supported by 50 % of the population. Real support is better represented by what you gain in the first round, in the case of Castillo: 18%. A president so elected has to understand that he must negotiate the required support in Congress by making the necessary alliances. If the president believed that a 50% votes gained in the second round means that he is supported by more than 50% of the population he doesn’t understand the voting system. To govern Peru, a president elected in a second round must make alliances and cannot impose his will to Congress, which despite its lack of popularity, represents the “real” mix of political forces. Castillo intended to legitimise his governing actions on grounds that he was elected by more than 50% of the population. The fact is that the population’s will is better represented by Congress, where he had only 18% support, and that anyone willing to govern Peru must deal with the diversity of political views represented therein. Castillo didn’t. By force he and his supporters tried to impose their will, and that is not how democracy works.
This. 50% of Peru DOES NOT support Castillo, it is barely an 18% (questionable since the National Jury of Election's president, Salas Arenas, is a pro-communist and a terrorists attorney). The real support comes from the first round, the second round is basically an arm twist to the population between 2 candidates. Sure he got 51%, but only because we had 2 candidates in the second round. Substract from that number the voter fraud numbers and you will see that his real support is less than 10% of the national population.
And actually only 13% since 18% is the vote he has if you add the votes from parties that failed to clear the 5% minimum. But the radical left in Peru is about 25% of the population and like 60% of Peru's south.
They believe anything that you tell them, as long as it stokes their anger.
Well said.
That's strange. Peru or not Peru, the actual popular support of a person elected in a second round voting system is the percentage they got in the second round multiples by the voting participation rate. If the guy got 60% of the vote but only 50% of the electorate voted in the second round, then his electoral support in 60% × 50% = 30%.
@@Tsicloh vote is compulsory en peru so one can assume some 90% participation rate. nobody wants to pay fines, which are not cheap at all.
I hate politicians that present themselves as poor or oppressed, so hypocrite, once you are in power YOU ARE IN FREAKING POWER, you're no longer lower class
He wasn't poor prior either.
Prime reason why an IQ and income requirement must exist to vote and run for office.
@Bessie Hillum
IQ removes a lot of the bafoons who vote for "free, free,free" from the equation
Income is very important as if you have money, you are not going to vote for socialists who will tank the economy and make your lose $.
You don't understand anything
@Bessie Hillum I can't explain the reasons when I know the comment I'm responding to will not comprehend it until after actually doing some research by himself so I'm forced to keep it easy to understand
One thing is true: since day 1 opposition tried to sack Castillo from the office. The first 2 attempts of vacancy were ridiculous, they were presented having no votes and without support of the people, only a handful of protesters. The third one was going to fail until that day, and Castillo was fool enough to think that the military and the people will support him if he dissolve the Congress. The sad thing is that people that are protesting now really believes that Castillo was wrongfully sacked from office, ignoring that was Castillo the first one that attempted a coup d'etat.
How idiotic do you sound? You literally said that since day 1 the opposition aka Congress has been trying to sack aka coup Castillo, but somehow Castillo was the first to attempt the coup? Don't twist it bud.
Your English is muy Bueno Mano
Huaman tenias q ser lapicito
To quote south park " ...Annnndddd its gone" basicly same vibes as this
Pedro Castillo wasn't a poor teacher as he portraited. He was a syndicate leader of extreme left tendencies who used populism and the hatred and discomfort of the poor to gain power and win elections who were not consider clean by a big part of the population.
necesitabamos a un peruano que diga eso hahahaha xD
Pedro Castillo y Vladimir Cerrón, juguetes de Cuba/China/Venezuela
Agree with part of it, but he won because the other candidate was worse. Castillo was not extreme left, but Cerron was. The fact is that he was never given a chance to run the country thanks to congress, thanks to the extreme right finally they got their coup and Dina as the new Keiko.
@@ShomoGoldburgler si, he oido estos mas veces ...triste que peru tiene so mucho corrupción
@@RA-fp6um no extreme right exists in Peru 😂
They are all some form of statism
More government, more bureaucracy
Everyone thinks they’d prefer a political outsider, but things tend to collapse with them… especially if they have no experience in government or management.
They are agents for chaos that people elect because they feel taken advantage of by the ruling class. It doesn't seem like a good solution.
They collapse because the outsiders aren't one of the boys and the club members want to get rid of them as fast as possible because they wont play ball and tend to get in the way of business as usual. Not always because they are bad or incompetent.
Trueee. Populists are populist because they have absolutely no clue how government works
We like to underestimate all the things that can go wrong and romanticize everything going right not the 70% success rate that is typically accomplished among anything
collapse of your parasite colonial government is what we want dummmyy
I am a naturalized Peruvian. I think the only way out of this is a massive increase in public awareness. To me, a prime suspect is the elections themselves. The same pattern in Peru as, more recently, in Colombia.
We desperately need electoral reform, getting a president elected with 13% of the votes (18% of the valid votes) leads to this kind of situation, since that low a % means, most likely, a radical will be elected, either left or right, and radicals/extremists can't make deals to increase their power in congress since their base will criticize them and abandon them.
Like they did Antauro, when he recognized Boluarte, hahaha, can you imagine Antauro is not radical enough for the people in southern Peru that was trying to get Castillo back?
we need more latinos in usa to counter these people
@@celdur4635 Agreed, there needs to be some sort of medium between a two party system like we have in the US and whatever the hell it is that exists in Peru right now where there were 18 different candidates on the ticket in the first round of elections
+1
I am not ready to diminish the value of democracy on Peru yet, but in a country where there is a cultural deficit of civism and political culture... popular vote off course its not a guarantee of success.
Being peruvian myself i always thought population was failing its duty to be interested in politics seriously as all the political "parties" in peru seemed more like fanclubs than true parties. Now , with the democratization of internet and information easier to access than ever in history, i think peru population has a DUTY that its failing when it comes to voting responsably.
In their defense, the availability to culture for Peruvian population has leaped so much in only 30 years.
Being middle-low class: When I was in primary school, I had no access to computers at all, i did my homework with old books and libraries. In High, some people had access to internet and was expensive and selective, In University, EVERYBODY had access to it. Thats in half of my lifetime! So I am okay with understanding its taking a bit for people to settle on what they can do now, but I firmly believe these situations are fought with civic sense, independent study and political responsability by the voters... all the rest are just consequences.
It's such a shame that Peru has been in a downfall the past 5 years
Peru☕️
It actually hasn't, their economy with Castillo grow because of the exports of minerals to China
@@ericsuarez834 But Castillo was in favor of raising significant taxes on mining companies which were their main export and this made its economy suffer. He has embraced Marxist communism and supported far left ideals. Plus he is most likely corrupt
@@egg174 "most likely corrupt" very ignorant thing to say since it shows you have no proof but assume based on an ideology
@@egg174 Which makes sense considering the type of damage minery does to the land, when Canadians and Chinese aren't paying enough makes sense to raise the taxes still during the government of Castillo the economy was steady and growing besides 2020 during the pandemy
I lived in Peru in 2016 around when President Kuczynski was impeached, definitely these issues are being exacerbated by corrupt politicians but as mentioned in this and the previos video on Peru checks and balances are falling apart and nothing is being done to address problems. It’s sad, Peru is a beautiful country with some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet but these problems keep Peru from growing and prospering.
The people of Peru are too divided to be able to decide any kind of leader that will work for everyone. There’s the rural class that still works the fields and those that live in cities that are mixed racially. They both have different politically leaning views and will never agree on anything.
@@ccutehoney Corruptions started with genocide Alberto fujimori !
@@ccutehoney Corruption started with Japanese genocide Alberto Fujmori and now continue her children Keiko, + the most corrupt Japanese in the planet.
Im currently living in Lima and its horrible, the prices have spiked up and there are multiple deaths here because of his "supporters" that have been lied to by him and his promises and they are having protest breaking into stores hurting people on the streets
Crazy, didn't most fatal victims were because of repression from the police?, That's what I've heard in the streets
@@matramirez yes and no. Most police have just responded because the protester have gone into highways and blocked the cars going from one department to another and they throw big rocks at the windows of passengers killing a 6 year old girl in the back seat and robbing.people with their merchandise. And now in lima there are many people protesting and going into malls and breaking into markets
I have good friends in Peru who told me how delicate things are in Lima alone.
I'm in Lima! It's business as usual....the only actions are in the provinces!
My 2 brothers abandoned the county and came to United States looking for Asylum. I will bring my dad here once my citizenship is approved, next year.
Good bye Perú. I will only miss your food and your nature. Everything else is shit.
I remember how a whole bunch of supposed progressives, mostly socialists and hard-core communists, celebrated this guy not too long ago. So to claim that only right-wingers fall for corrupt populists would be dishonest.
In Spain, somebody from PODEMOS (the far left party) made an official statement like 24 after the failed coup claiming that Castillo had been moving closer to the right... Wonder why they wait unit after the coup? 😅
@@LuisRomeroLopez - people on The Left always blame their failures on The Right
No-one in this video claimed such a thing.
Nor am I even aware of anyone doing so in real life - though even if they did you'd need to bring this up with them, not make a political propaganda claim here.
Things are never black and white, he was a corrupt leader, yeah sure, but that wasn't the reason why he was ousted, not even close at all. He wanted to nationalize mining since the beginning, that's how he won the elections, but Peru's mining industry and its military is run by a couple of families and the whole congress have economic interest invested in them.
Since day 1 the congress tried to depose him, whitout even doing his first act of corruption.
@@theguythatcoment totally agree!
He seems like a teacher who was running the country like a substitute teacher
he is an insult to real honest hard-working teachers.
He has never taught as a teacher, he has spent his whole life on union leave
He was a teacher I’m a Peruvian
@@multiplayer2010lol, Oof
Bro was shaking 😂
yes, he knew he didnt have military support... there is something fishy that we dont know yet
@@RA-fp6um well, he never asked to begin with
@@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 That is the saddest part. Plus he could have just recorded the message and air it once he was on Mexico embassy, but he was too dumb for that.
@@ironpamf lol fr.... Kinda surprised it didn't wrk
Here in México, President Benito Juárez in the 19th century set México on a course of non-intervention, saying “El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz “. So many of us are wondering what President Andrés Manuel Lopez Orador is doing, getting involved in another country’s inner affairs. It seems he is doing what he has always criticized other countries (USA) for doing.
He’s not getting involved but he’s entitled to his opinion. He’s also defending democracy which is always at risk and silently oppressed by the elites and conservatives in Latin America. Not to say he’s very much aware of the real culprit behind all of this the U.S. So far he’s doing a great job with some minor hiccups in Mexico. He’s really wise and smart no matter what the corrupt right may have you believe or the media.
@@PaulyWally30 ugh, it's equally as vomitibe seeing people kissing his ass in English as in spanish
Obrador is the same corrupt shit he always accuses others to be, or even worse since he constantly ignores the constitution.
And no, he's not giving his "opinion", he's constantly siding with left dictators by boycotting international meetings, unrecognizing the new president of Peru but supporting the one that is in jail for corruption.
Also, there are now more dead in Mexico than with Calderon.
I was laughing when you said "wise and smart" the man can barely speak spanish.
@@PaulyWally30 defending democracy is laughable. First he should fix the cartel problem since they hold entire regions and get paid by state governments to keep “peace.” Oh wait, he’s bought by them as well as well as the army
How could anybody on His Right mind say its the same way to deal with foreign events?
The USA would orchestrate AND subsidize internal movements if not plainly send troops.
In this case the mexican president just expressed points of View since he was asked to grant Asylum to the deposed peruvian president.
@@PaulyWally30 Smart and wise ? , hahahahaha
Thanks for the good information that you shared in English. Peru had former presidents from humble origen ( as Toledo and others) but this Castillo was the sample of incompetence and no preparation to lead a country. Only the hatred to one candidate put this man on the power. Good that his mandate ended by himself.
symbol and zero
Happened in Colombia as well.
Not really this whole video is one giant heap of misinformation, to begin with the dissolution of congress wasn't for some attempt to hold and preserve power into a dictatorship, prior to this, there had been presented ample evidence Peru's congress was riddled with an atrocious amount of corruption in service of foreign companies, and they had at every turn, made successful efforts to thwart Pedro's policies of reform. The reason he was deposed was also because he was betrayed by a trusted confidant and ally as is often the case, this being the Vice-president, which is the current President presiding over a cluster fhk of epic proportions as ppl continue to protest. Police forces themselves have joined these protest and in effort to dissuade them, police in Peru are currently not being paid.
But like always, leaders are "incompetent" and "unprepared" when they fight against western interest. I remember when time magazine heralded Mexican former President Peñanieto the savior who would "modernize" Mexico, despite the fact that he had murdered his wife by poisoning her, and was a nephew of the leader of a party who had basically lead a perfect dictatorship for almost 5 decades in Mexico. And then, when the current Mexican President AMLO, actively campaigned against western interests at the cost of Mexico's prosperity, he was labeled Mexico's Trump and Hugo Chavez. Well, that turned out to be so far from the truth lol.
Brazil's Lula da Silva also suffered this, and was jailed for the very crimes his accuser's committed in the service of foreign companies, but he survived, and became President once more by a landslide. Hopefully, Pedro also survives this.
Falso.... No fue candidato sino candidata keiko fujimori qué representa el autoritarismo y la cleptocracia como su padre que se llevó 6 mil millones de dólares y hoy está encerrado por 25 años.👎🚾🤐🤐🤐
AND HUMBLE CORRUPTION LUL
When a clown moves into the Castle he does not become king, the palace becomes a circus.
-Old Turkish Proverb
To be honest, as a peruvian i prefer the things like this. If You have noticed every president is corrupt, so the only way to mantain power is TO BE MORALY PERFECT.
Which is impossible…
Is that really worth having constant government deadlock for?
@@ArsenalOfFutbol in Perú, at least, it is.
Really? So every single president including Boularte are corrupt? How about the Congress and Fujimoristas?
@@farhanatashiga3721 Yup, economy is stable, Even without president XD
So, dissolving Congress is this guy’s idea of upholding democratic values? Oh, the surrealism of Latin American populism.
It isn't only in south america, it's very universal. Populism is always fake promises and always from peeps who want absolute power no matter what.
It sounds like congress is not the good guy either. They are subverting the constitution too. Not to mention there are probably reasons for the 90% disapproval rating. Though I suppose technically congress dominating the other branches is slightly more democratic than one man doing so.
Several authoritarian leftist in LATAM are defending Castillo too. Horrible. Includes the new Colombian president Petro.
The Peruvian constitution allows the president to dissolve Congress under certain circumstances.
Article 171 allows the President of Peru to dissolve Congress.
If this weren't so serious, I would believe I'm watching the Woody Allen film, "Bananas"
Well, let me get to some points:
1. If you want to make videos about international politics, you need to get A LOT better at pronouncing last names. Is hilarious and a bit insulting.
2. "A humble rural teacher" was his pitch. It's not the reality. He made a name for himself as a leader of the teachers' union that violently opposed an educational reform. The government wanted to improve education by constantly train and evaluate teachers, and by taking out those who wouldn't teach at all and ran rural schools as mob bosses. Castillo opposed that and led a teachers' strike and protests for months.
3. He got to the 2021 elections on a "borrowed political party". Perú Libre belongs to Vladimir Cerrón, a leftist politician with very dated communist ideas. They got together and created this "humble socialist teacher" story, tailored to appeal to the country side.
4. Most of Castillo's problems began when he backstabbed Cerrón and kept the power for himself. He put his own family in positions where they could demand bribes, and they did it so bluntly and carelessly that it was almost obvious they knew it wouldn't last five years. They were so desperate to grab as much money as they could, that didn't even consider the government wouldn't survive without the support of Cerrón's party in Congress.
5. Castillo came and wet having done absolutely nothing for the people that put him in power. Not a single law or decrete that improves the awful conditions of rural education or healthcare. Not even a concrete project. KEEP IN MIND THOUGH, he did use public funds to build a helipad in his family farm, and was often photographed dining in the most expensive restaurants in Lima or the cities he traveled to on official business.
Finally the truth
Also, don't forget that he actually has a pretty big and modern house for a 'rural teacher', he's certainly a pretty rich guy
yess typical latin american president
Tomorrow I'm going at my job and declare myself CEO. They'll have no choice but to obey me, right ?
I was just in Peru a few months ago, it’s crazy what all has happened since then.
So, what happened since the guy was arrested that is different?
Not really, if you know how ended the last 5 Peruvian presidents.
It's been unstable since Ollanta Humala the first socialist president took power.
@@DavidHalko I was there in September. The best example I can think of is when my tour group had to make a mad dash from our hotel in Ollantaytambo to the train station to catch the last train that night to Machu Picchu. There was a protest scheduled for the next day and our guide was worried they would block the tracks to keep tourists from coming in. The people were protesting the government not sharing profits from ticket sales with the locals
We woke up at the crack of dawn to start the hike to Machu Picchu, to get ahead of the protesters. The site was open, but there was a town wide strike. Many businesses were closed, busses were not working so we got a lot of exercise in and got a rare, mostly tourist free tour of Machu Picchu.
When we came down we passed the protesters. It was a party atmosphere for the most part, very peaceful and they had some very good food.
From what I have seen, the protests against the government now have become more violent. Roadblocks, fires, and “gringos” being chased out of some towns.
I hope that the political situation over there is resolved soon and peacefully, it’s a beautiful country with a wonderful culture
@@ShomoGoldburgler I suppose, I’m pretty ignorant on Peruvian politics, but just the unrest I was shocked over. I suppose that’s been brewing for awhile though
Castro forget the most vital part of a successful coup you have the MILITARY on your side if you don’t have the military or a majority of the military your coup has no chance of success
Or the people
He believed his Andean communists would March on Lima and support him 😂
Near the end, you said that you would leave a link in the description. Am I missing something, or is the link just not in the description yet?
Interestingly the Peruvian currency is one of the strongest in SA. Ecuador and others now use the US dollar.. Argentina is a financial disaster.... perennially!
the perks of having an autonomous central bank with a god-tier economist as head
@@rodelcleon Are you referring to Julio Velarde of Peru? And if so, which of his policies have been god-tier?
Peru's problems always comes back to bad faith politics where all political actors see ousting their rivals as theyir main role instead of working with them. Their electoral system also results in extremes. In the last presidential election, something like 20% voted extreme left and 20% voted extreme right. That leads 60% somewhere in the middle but the run-off ends up with the two extremes as the centre vote is split so much. It's a terribly broken system and very hard to see how it can possibly be fixed.
Yes and no, Peru is right wing overall. Something like 70% of congress is either extreme conservative right wing or just plain right wing.
However the quality is poor since there is no filter through political parties, simply local mafias in each region with money can get people to vote for them. By mafias i mean business people who have legal companies, but behave in a very roughshod way.
@@celdur4635 Yeah, this is dead wrong. Remember that political sides are relative to the country. Our Left is very different from the USA Left. What is Left in the US, is Right in Europe. What is Left here could be considered Right in the US. What I'm saying is that in our point of view, a country that is very conservative (and that's ok), Congress isn't really "extreme right" unless you throw in conservatism in the equation, in the which case you'd get that 99% of Peruvians are "extreme right wing".
@@arcturus4762 Left wing has always been conservative.
This new "progressive" left is a new development fron a couple decades ago.
My point was that the two furthest points from each other (on the spectrum) always end up as the two most powerful political entities or movements (can't even call them parties) who basically refuse to work together. Doesn't matter how "left" or "right" they are or how you view the spectrum compared to other countries. I'm sorry if I was generalising a bit.
For some reason, Hérge in his masterpiece comics "The adventures of Tintin" parodied the latin-american policy with the caracters of General Alcazar and General Tapioca. It continues actual.
Just came back from peru after 2 weeks. thanks to Christmas the protests fizzled out. From what i have understood is peru doesn't have senate and congress but just one congress. They tend to gang up on sitting president making their life hard. Peru definitely needs senate and house with a functioning judiciary. Wishing all the best to this wonderful nation.
Yes and they all bow down to US interests.
Maybe you can make a video about Bulgaria. They are also in a big political crisis.
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Castillo was overthrown because a coup supported by US ambassador Lisa Kenna former CIA. One day before the coup 7th december, lisa met with peru defense minister.
US topple castillo because he want peru mineral resources to be use more on peru people, not foreign energy company (US, UK, Japan, canada, etc)
Source?
Wow i cant believe im finally watching my countrys news in english!
Thanks for the cideo and the subtitles btw it made it easier for me to understand
VisualPolitik, wha happen?
15 minutes of analysis, and you left out a most MAJOR contributing factor: in between Presidential campaigns, Keiko Fujimori RUNS Congress. Like a Boss, whether she is a seated Member, or not.
You mentioned her once, and the Right wing once. You even mentioned the increasingly ineffective nature of the Executive branch. Yet you completely omitted any connection between the two.
The Fujimorists and their calculated and unceasing crusade to stymie all progress by any President not under their thumb IS the main cause of Peru's downward spiral, and is politics at it's worst.
As an American, I recognize the very same strategy being used in my own country.
Peruvian here. While it's true that Fujimori has been a huge pain in the ass for the past 15 years or so, Castillo himself is no saint.
First of all, your left and our left is not the same. What you americans call left, to us is still hardcore right. The left Castillo represents is a less radical version of the terrorist left we had in the 80s. The kind of people to see Mao's so called "Great Leap Forward" and want the same for our country. The same kind of people responsible for actual genocides in our country, and which everyone older than 40 can't forget nor forgive.
Second, believe it or not, Fujimori isn't right wing. That woman doesn't have a political alignment. Or rather, her alignment is whatever the hell helps her with her campaign. All the stuff Castillo was saying about the forgotten parts of the country? She was saying the same shit in the previous elections against Kuczynski. She was the ally of the poor and forgotten people, her adversary was the evil capitalist puppet. That's the kind of person Keiko Fujimori is.
Third, you really must think we're morons if you think we let her hold the Congress by the balls like she did with the previous three Presidents. While it's true that the Fujimori party has been incredibly annoying this term, they had by no means the absolute control they did in previous terms, Castillo's party was the dominant force, plus they received support of a left leaning party and a party led by some asshole who also tried for presidency before some shady shit was found about him, and who was in cahoots with Castillo, both of which held a significant presence in the Congress, reason why previous attempts to sack him failed. But the issue here is that Castillo has spent this whole year making his allies hate him. The leader of his own political party, a hardcore communist with criminal charges berated him for not being radical enough. Many members of the Congress left his party for putting his promised change of Constitution above important issues like the pandemic and the rise of organized crime in the country, and overall general mismanagement. The ministers sacked? Morons, almost of them, especially his Prime Ministers who are always borderline communist fanatics whose only role seems to be to defend Castillo and advocate for the constitutional reform.
Finally, his damned constitutional reform. I'll be the first to admit it, we need a new one, since it excessively shields both the President and the Congress from justice, and ironically Castillo was no exception. But for all you've read before, and many disasters more both on the local and the international scenes, it's beyond obvious that this man should not be behind such a reform. Not only that, Venezuelan immigrants have seen the same signs with Castillo that led their country to become the hellhole it is now. I've seen them terrified in the markets, ready to flee the second a left leaning assembly is formed to change the Constitution. It's not going to be a clean process. Castillo has the awful habit of doing whatever the hell he pleases then shielding himself behind the mask of the poor hardworking teacher. His obsession with the reform has been such that anyone not under his spell was terrified of the day he finally snapped and stopped playing along. Which would have been the day of the coup had he not been a colossal moron, the only thing I'm actually grateful for in this whole mess.
I'm not surprised Peru has had a very weird history of its internal politics such as when President Fujimori was running the country
Even though he stole a lto of moeny and di some fucked up shit, I ahve to say he did save the country from terrorism. He erradicated it in a fucking year and created current constitution, which is not perfect and needs some reforms, but it is not bad either. it has been the backbone of our economy ever since, and we do have a ver strong economy. Even though we have been thorugh a lot and so many presidents and political isntability, the economy still standing strong.
@Buzás András this channel is a clown show lol. Fujimori and the legislature assembly are the real dictators.
Since even before Castillo took the oath to the office, the right wing controlled Congress of Peru was poised to obstruct Castillo's program promised to his supporters Former president Fujimori also closed de Congress and ruled by decree and supported by the army ,the difference was that Fujimori was a right wing politician I believe that it was a trap set by the right wing Congress, the military, with the support of the Peruvian oligarchs some media groups and the support of Washington
Yeah, why did they vote right wing politician in the first place?
Good on Peru to not allow another dictator to rise 👏
The current president has assassinated 28 people, you have no idea who the dictator is
Don’t worry. We’ll just elect a new one 😢
@@shujinkoMK It's not like we have other choice.
They already have one. It’s the conservative elites who dared not lose their choke hold on Peru. Democracy is dead in Peru.
@@shujinkoMK and again we get rid of him/her. Damn, it would be the third, it's getting tired
this wasnt a coup perse, im peruvian and this clearly was a last ditch of effort to try and maintain the presidency of the country when the congress was planning on and trying actively to stop castillo of being president since the beginning, right now there is a crisis because the cities that arent Lima are defending their vote, people are dying, the numbers ascend to 45, the constitution is fucked, we arent going to get a full term in any presidency that the congress, Lima, and the Right approve, technically the vote of anyone who isnt white, and from the capital doesnt count or is valid. I totally get why the people are angry. THIS A SOCIAL ISSUE.
Limeños are some of the most tranquilo people I have ever known! It's just too comfortable here!
As far as I can tell Peru is largely under control of big business. Chinese...American.. Canadian.... Australian!! Others. They do not want another Venezuela...what do I know?!
You gonna talk about how the U.S. (CIA) was involved in this coup?
As a Peruvian, I’m not surprised almost all presidents in this century has been prosecuted. However, I’m happy to see justice taken action because all presidents in this world are corrupted but most of them are not prosecuted, especially in Europe. I never supported Castillo because of his left ideologies. Speaking of the economy, Peru isn’t doing so bad. Our currency is the strongest in South America and inflation is lower than other countries in this continent. Greetings from Peru. 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
It's important to mention why we have a strong currency. And it's because in the constitution it says that the central bank it's independent from the executive. So the elected president can't change the policies of the bank.
What’s wrong with left ideologies? Are you against the working class?
@@HC-wo2tz leftist ideology is a mess down here. It's not like in europe or your country where u get money if u get a child. Here they make poor economic choisies. Examples are Venezuela where they have constant oil deficit even tho they have a lot of it to process, or argentina and it's highest inflation in the region. U haven't live in socialism and don't know what it is to have your economy ruin.
@@DaleonM4 Just because a country uses its oil wealth for social programs does not mean it's socialist. And if you're going to use Argentina as an example of socialism, then you definitely don't know what socialism is.
@@HC-wo2tz left doesn’t care about the working class
a few considerations to add:
1. Pedro castillo altougth a "teacher" in concept was more a "dirigente" of SUTEP, someone who called on protest and directed some actions of the teachers union and did very little on the teaching part, also his last political action before presidency was faking a fainting to gather simpathy in a series of protest made by sutep.
2. Castillo managed to survive his others impeachments by lending some political favors to big sections of congress (for example, a political party was in favor of impeachment, at the moment of voting suddendly voted against and a few days latter a law was passed giving the leader of this party lots of benefits for his companies, in this case universities)
3. Castillo entered presidency with a political party associated with "far left" ideologies that had lots of similarities with a terrorist movement that damaged the country in the 90s, also lots of those party members were related to this movements. Latter castillo decided not to follow on the path of his party (The biggest part being a "Asamblea constituyente" much in the likes of venezuela and a "Change of constitution")
4. Maybe the biggest problem with Castillo was his almost incredible way to ellect always the worst people as ministers (most of then with open cases of corruption, destruction of patrimony, etc), this was so bad that a theory said that this was on purpose to make the congress deny the notion of confidence enougth times to close it.
I love Peruvian food, it's so unique
Peru didnt experience "an attempted coup." They experienced an *actual* coup. Congress removing Castillo WAS the coup..
Coup 101, have the army in your pockets first.
LOL
Wrong, Castillo was part of a socialist political party and that's how he got improvised to the presidency.
He chose to ignore the extreme left ''socialist'' when he was overwhelmed with critics and never really knew what to do.
I've always told people that staging a coup is easy, keeping it for more than five minutes is the hard part.
Why does your video sound sped up and slightly pitched uo
Wow! I was telling perubian coworker how lithium is the future and peru/Bolivia could take advantage of it and become super powers of the region but corruption hits again, selfish, greedy people can destroy a country dreams and future in weeks...
Democracy does not work in Latin America.
The people will always choose the one who promises the most "free" things.
Indeed very sad, my peruvian girlfriend says corruption is so deep in Peru. It is crazy and it definitly doesnt help to grow the country...
@@TheMacValk Good thing 80% of the economy is in private hands. Which is why we're still the strongest economy in the continent, at least the most stable. Government doesn't matter that much. We need some more critical reforms to combat rampant informal labor and business (we have a tax system and law structure for business as if we were a nordic country, but with 15% the productivity per worker, pushing most businesses and people to the informal sector)
And an independent central bank, with the same head for over 15 years.
@@celdur4635 Don't forget our national hero, the new Miguel Grau. Mr. Julio Velarde Flores, he literally ALONE si making apur currency viable and stable, without him our currency could ve like argentina or Venezuela.
@@OoWhiteStaroO Yes, Him but specially the economic chapter of the constitution that grants him autonomy.
I am peruvian, the biggest problem Castillo had was the lack of support from a big part of the population, if you look at how he got elected you would see that this plan started way before he even thought of being president, but it is a trend in Latin America as a whole, extreme left parties want power in the region, Peru being the lynchpin for their plans. Castillo was meant to be a figure head with no real power, but his puppet master, Vladimir Cerron was not allowed to be a part of the government. The original plan was to have cerron as second vicepresident, they would let castillo hang himself, get rid of boluarte and Cerron would have been president. That plan failed early on. Do not be surprised if Dina does not make it to 2024
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Sad for Peru, there is a lot of corruption. Lots of influence by Cuba, old presidents jailed, bribes, etc etc
This country is so beautiful and has tremendoes big opportunities for like battery industry, mining and tourism... but if goverment is bad, then investers will not like to invest...
Buena suerte queridos Peruanos!
"Lots of influence by Cuba" lmaoooooo
@A B following the constitution? Lol
@A B Lol the Cuban government bribed Castillo to go the Marxist-Leninist party after he won and had no party. Since he won presidency all his actions were practically just dictated by Cuba. I would know I am from Cuba myself.
@@thelawyerfrommars lmao cuz we all know cuba is a superpower, poor little usa would never do such a thing, they promised in the monroe doctrine!!!
Don't worry we have one of the strongest economies in Latin America we're doing fine
One of my favorite jokes from a journalist:
"He didn't read Fujimori's book on How to Stage a Coup".
Thank you at least you are not saying it didn't happen because it wasnt succesfull.
Many stupid people are saying he is inocent because the coup de etat didn't work and its upsetting.
And yes, I'm peruvian.
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True. Its like saying you are innocent because you tried to murder someone but they saved him at the hospital. Lmao.-
Wearing a variety of mildly silly hats was Castillo's only true talent as a statesman.
It's almost as if you couldn't find something more substantial to criticise about him than his hat
Hearing him speak was the worst torture you can imagine.
Everyone knows that if you’re going to do the coup thing, you better have the military 100% with you. If you ain’t got that, don’t even think about trying that.
I’m Peruvian (born and raised), but I live abroad now and I’ve been closely following what happened since I still have family back home. Gotta say, from all of the “western” videos, this is probably one of the best ones I’ve found. The context is well explained, and it remains pretty objective throughout it.
Sadly it seems like the situation keeps getting worse (but protestors had a “truce” for the holidays). I personally think it’s gonna get worse before it gets better because the reality is that there’s a lot of unhappy people (from either side of the political spectrum), and that won’t change anytime soon.
The problems is the corruption,!
First Peru video since August 23, 2021 ladies and gentlemen.
And it is again to being bad news xd
He was naive, thinking he could change everything on his own.
But you are wrong at stating that Castillo was beyond his authority. In fact the Peruvian Constitution spells out the authority to dismiss the congress, but Castillo was very naive in announcing his intentions and his opponents were not about to sit idle. They beat him to the punch.
you can see his hands shaking :/ crazy to think what was going through his head.
there's people that actually think that he was drugged/ held at gunpoint 💀
Still an unstable political environment, but at least the economy is controlled and Peru still has the most stable currency in the region. Even neighboring countries have start saving in "Soles", as their currency is in shambles.
They had the chance to elect renowned economist Hernando de Soto but chose this guy instead.
Here's the thing. This is not the story of the "downfall" of Perú, it's quite the opposite. In Perú this president tried to take the power illegally however our congress, media, armed forces, and people in general didn't let him or backed him up, instead they caught him and put him in prison. NO OTHER COUNTRY IN LATINAMÉRICA HAS DONE THIS.
As you mentioned, our latest presidents are in trouble with the law or in prison because they acted illegally.
It's on the people though to choose better goverments, but bad politicians in Perú have to face the law, and that is a good thing, not a disaster.
Also it's important to know that even with all this political chaos, the economy keeps growing strong and hasnt been affected and continuos to be praised by económist around the world.
Im not saying your video is untrue, just have an issue with your perspective.
Just wondering, in what way is the economy growing?
The Gross Domestic Product (not sure if is the correct term in english) in 2022 increased 3.5% compared to 2021 (2.5%). Hopefully the trend remains for 2023 🤞
@@oflode2992 umm.. GDP means nothing for actual people. To paraphrase Joe Biden: "People don't live off the stock market"
@@ryleynadhir4685 it’s one of the best economies in South America it’s actually kind of funny how this instability has made it grow more 😂 I guess Peruvians thrive on instability
At this poiint we just laugh at the absurdity of it all. Laugh to keep from crying.
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Got stuck in Peru when this started. Had to fly to Argentina
Thanks for the video comrade
The sash makes him look like even smaller.
“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. I HAVE THE SASH!”
i loved this video. great research as always, objective and straight to the point. however, english is not my first language and it would be a big help to me and to others if there subtitles in the videos-assuming there's a script of course. thanks!
Turn on closed captions
I also love this video, it´s full of sh*t and lies, hate and racism.
nah, it's just bullshit
@@Robpires2 Excuse me, could you elaborate further? I am interested on hearing your point of view
"Objective" lmao
I remember when I was leaving my Physics class, one Wednesday, December 7, when I went down to the cafeteria to eat something, on the television, they were transmitting the message to the nation, I knew that something bad was going to happen, until the congress ex-president Castillo was removed from office, I was finally able to rejoice and came out mentioning "the president was removed, the new president is Dina Boluarte"
In fact, Peru is a country with great potential to grow with their natural resources, tourism, etc. It's a wonderful place. But the political atmosphere is very interesting.
People have no confidence in politicians because most of them are corrupt. The two wings of government, that is, president and the executive, and the Congress are always challenging each other. The presidents dissolve Congress, and the Congress removes president. That's why they have 6 presidents in 5 years. There's a great political disconnect. Pedro Castillo was not allowed to govern at all. Again, he was a great failure in coordination and making alliance in such a political mess. So he had to face 3 no confidence motion in one and half years. His ruling was inept as his coup was.
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Peruvian here, first of all, fantastic video: loved the part where it sums up everything politically relevant through 25 years of peruvian history. Second: amazing way to describe someone as incompetent as Castillo: he started as he finished, without any idea how politics works. And lastly, there lots of things to look foreward after Castillo failed Coup: there's a social crisis because of how politics are manipulated to benefit some which is always happening in the congress.
Everything that's happened since Alberto Fujimori was obvious because of how "politicians" handle society, but now, every single one that was born at the begining of this period is a young adult and are starting to realize that a change is needed and hope that the future might look brighter for everyone.
This account is interesting but superficial. Peru's political problem appears to reflect the same issues that plague so many countries now: the political institutions serving the interests of the elites instead of the people, and the people thrashing around to try to find someone who will fight back on their behalf. What policies did Castillo advocate? How did his policy choices alienate the elites? What policies do the elite forces in Congress advocate?
Castillo's plan of policies were absolute madness, no covid policy planning, 80% tax on foreign industries, nationalizing the mining industry, and a lot more nonsense. It was so bad the Peruvian sol suffered massive inflation against the dollar after he got elected because of people putting their savings in dollars. fearing hyperinflation
Dude, dentists are available worldwide.
This is the type of stuff I try to tell my American friends about when they talk about having so many different types of political parties. Shit like this happens.
Do You forget January 6th? I'm asking this as someone living on Perú.
@@LaMadriguera no and that's not even close to the same shit.
An interesting comment.... I'd be curious about your thoughts on Germany with it's many active parties.
The trouble with this is that I'm comparing countries with vastly different (modern) histories, but the point stands that it isn't the number of parties that determines stability.
Take the US model, for example. Cramming 155 to 160 million voters into 2 political camps is obviously not a true reflection of desired political outcomes by those voters, and it necessitates dissatisfaction. Yes, that includes extremists on both ends of the left and right, but if we're truly interested in government reflecting the will of voters, two parties in such a large democracy is an absurdity. And I'm fully aware of the outcomes of first-past-the-post electoral systems, I'd advocate for moving away from it.
I think the real problem is that, generally speaking, democracies currently seen around the world have been structured with reliance on 18th and 19th-Century understandings of technology, political power, and social fabrics. Think about how those three aspects have changed since the late 1700s. The world is unrecognizable, yet we're still playing by basically the same rules politically and how human systems wield power. Why would we expect that to continue to work? It's kind of no wonder we've seen such heartbreaking decline in democratic institutions in the last 20 to 30 years in particular.
No, democracy needs a 21st-Century upgrade, and with all of the negative influences of the Internet, corporate greed, and institutional corruption, we may not be collectively able to manage a transition into systems that work well in this age.
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Most countries have more than 2 partys, and this "stuff" is a thing rarely happens.
@@LaMadriguera rarely happens? It happens all the time in Latin America because the president will end up having 25% of the people who have voted for him. He doesn't ever win a majority. Also it's really stupid because at the end of the day you stop to make a coalition of left versus right anyway
The problem that we have in Peru is that we don't vote to chose who will become president, we vote against the candidate we don't want to see in power, and that causes that we ended up the some presidents that are not the best candidate for government
El antofijomorismo es el problema. Quién sabe, tal vez Keiko hubiese sido una buen gobierno, pero su antivoto siempre ganará. Ojalá Keiko no postule, sin ella la izquierda muere.
@@multiplayer2010 si estoy de acuerdo, yo feliz con tal que la economía del país cresca
6 presidents in 5 years. Classic Latam polititic moment
4:10 The congress/opposition shot every ammunition they got to get rid of Castillo, that doesn't make them true tho.
As a Farcry 6 player this is hilarious 😂 and if u search him up his full name is José Pedro Castillo Torrez so in theory the Peruvians got rid of Jose Castillo in the most peaceful way,not to mention that the people at 0:43 look like FND soldiers so Castillo forgot to get the FND to support him 😂
The corruption took the power so.
When I think of how Perú could have changed I think of the 1990 election and of Mario Vargas Llosa
Perú lost a great politician and the World gained a great writer
I think about Javier Perez de Cuellar the man was literal EX GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE UN
Maybe things would have changed with him and also with ALFONSO BARRANTES but sadly he stepped back for ALAN
As a Peruvian living in the middle of all of this sht show, yeah, it was pretty dumb. And I belong to the "agricultural class" that he talks about. I guess this is what happens when you bite more than you can chew.
So congress always unites in unison when their job is under threat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
not always. in 2019 they decided to ignored the second 'cuestion de confianza' that allowed the president to dissolved them, they didn't believe the president would dared to close them, the were wrong and nowdays they are extremely paranoid about it (and with reasons, people hated them all)
Castillo was a fool to think the Congress would make the same mistake twice, and was a fool to think he could "interpret" the law , and even worse, was a fool to think he would have the support of the military without even having contacting them to offer money or benefits. Total fool.
What? "Quite bold of him trying to start a coup without contacting the army first"?
Uh-Uh. Precisely why that's a lie. He never tried to start no "coup". Poor guy is being slandered by people who want to capitalize on his lack of political experience. His party recruited him and used him to get to power. Then, after they were done using him they kicked him to the curb, and when he realized what was happening he simply grappled with the tools he thought he should use, not having any experience on how to use them in a politically wise way.
Media in brainwashing the West in favor of all those who already have the power.
SAY NO TO SOCIALISM
The intro could be near word for word about USA, but still after 2 years, how many days has Trump been jailed for Capitol Hill?
It's not like US coups/regime change have better odds. The US has failed miserably in overthrowing the Venezuelan government for years as it failed to in Syria. To their credit they did succeeded in overthrowing Ukraine government and Lybia. of course, that resulted in civil war and chaos and the utter destruction of both countries but that's really never a problem.
Castillo rolls "worst coup ever", asked to leave Peruvian Government.
Keep an eye on Mexico, his destination for political asylum. Mexico is heading down a dark road.😊
It's a narco state. It's so sad. As an American, I see the hard work and grit of the common Mexican, they don't deserve their government. They are more than welcome here.
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They used to know what to do with a corrupt government.
They would rise up and crush the government.
Things would go good for a bit, then have to do it again.
@@nyfinest487hen you don’t really know Mexico’s new government. It’s not perfect but hell it’s done so much to improve Mexican lives than any president and their administration has done in the past. What you see are remnants of the old corrupt government, but it’s changing.
Thanks for sharing this video. I know this might come to help me in future here
Great resume man, I am Peruvian, and I know things look messy and the world sees that, but, if we look from the other side, means the Peruvian laws and justice is working, the last 6 or 7 presidents are in jail, prosecuted or dead. which shows there is some hope of having one day the right people in charge, we just need to choose wisely. thank you for sharing.
Si pero mientras mas malos presidentes escogemos y botamos mas se caga el país, mas importante la economia y la vida del peruano
The problem about choosing is when all the choices are bad. And then a loser like Castillo moves to 2nd round with 18% of votes, and goes against Keiko who had 70% anti-vote. That is the problem.
Yes, we do not have choices when it comes to politics, its all just about who isnt most likely to fuck up or who has more hatred
Having El País editorial to support your view, think twice.
"A story of hatred, confrontation, disloyalty and the ambition for power"... I'd say that's wrong, at least in Castillo's case. His coup was a move by a corrupt and desperate president trying to evade justice by becoming a dictator, who happened to be surrounded by a group of comunist radicals trying to establish a Venezuela-like political system in Peru. They could not convince the army, but they unleashed a series of popular revolts which they had prepared for a year and a half, since Castillo took office. As regards the political instability of the peruvian government in general, I'm not sure, but I suspect that it accentuated after the Senate was abolished in 1993, and only one parliamentary chamber ("the Congress") was kept (in fact, it mostly derives from repeated confronations between the Congress and the executive branch).
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Former veteran CIA agent and current US Ambassador in Peru Lisa Kenna met with Peru's defense minister just one day before democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup d’etat and imprisoned without trial.
Peru’s defense minister, a retired brigadier general, ordered the military to turn against Castillo
Kenna then tweeted, “The United States categorically rejects any extra-constitutional act by President Castillo to prevent the congress from fulfilling its mandate.”
Kenna failed to mention article 134 of Peru’s constitution, which states:
The President of the Republic is authorized the dissolve the Congress if it has censured or denied its confidence to two Councils of Ministers [the official name of Peru’s cabinet]. The dissolution decree contains the call for elections for a new Congress.
When Castillo moved to dissolve the congress, he cited article 134 and he made it clear that it was only going to be a “temporary” closure. The president said new congressional elections would be held as soon as possible.
Kenna ignored all of this context. Instead, the ambassador declared, “The United States emphatically urges President Castillo to reverse his attempt to close the congress and allow the democratic institutions of Peru to function according to the constitution.”
By this, the CIA veteran meant that Castillo should simply allow the anti-democratic, oligarch-controlled congress to launch a coup against him.
Un lapicito que sabe hablar ingles 😂, cada dia se superan estas bestias.
wow, this is not what happened at all and its so wrong that I wonder why do I even watch this channel, if any of you wanna know whats happening in Peru in English and from a better perspective that gives you actual context to the situation, watch the video of badempanada in youtube,
this from my point of view(Mexican here, hola) this is just another right wing point of view of the situation that completely misrepresents whats happening, I'm actually surprised but the Spanish version of this channel is super right wing
it is what happened, if you disagree with the opinions of them about castillo's incompetence or peruvian politics its your thing, and we'd love if your president just stays out of the whole matter
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Badempanada? A leftist that will supoort castillo even if he does bad things? Why would I listen to him?
@@JJJ-C no it's not what happened. They're purposely leaving out important information.
Can we overthrow this presenter from this channel please? He can’t get through a single sentence. His videos are so full of cuts he makes Max Headroom look smooth!
Non of the other presenters on this channel have to cut sentences together virtually word by word.
Once you notice all the cuts it’s all you can see.
the classic, "he pulled the coup out of his ass..."
Our worst enemy here in Peru is and will always be ignorance