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Peru's one-house Congress has allowed the use of lethal force in case of 'imminent danger' in a move to protect the citizenry. President Dina Boluarte has signed the bill into law, it was reported in Lima.
Lima, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) The conservative majority of the Peruvian parliament announced today its rejection of a project to advance the electoral process demanded by 80 percent of the population and by a social journalistic poll collected by the opposition to the extreme right-wing parties Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular and Avanza País, and part of the legislative benches of the center, to a new project to hold elections in 2024, presented by the progressive bench Cambio Democrático–Nuevo Perú .
Peru’s socialist president, Pedro Castillo, came into office to fight neoliberalism, but his agenda has been derailed by the Right. One of his ministers tells Jacobin how the Castillo government can fight back and win power for ordinary Peruvians.
Butterworth & Son takes a look at Peru’s political crisis and the impact it’s having on its coffee industry
For the 10th consecutive week, the wave of mass demonstrations and roadblocks across Peru has continued defying brutal repression by the US-backed coup regime of Dina Boluarte.