Three thousand officers took part in 130 raids across much of the country
Eek!
Not good.
This rise in authoritarianism is deeply concerning.
I’ll take “Headlines that could come from 1922 or 2022 for 300 thanks Alex.”
Seriously though, it’s important to remember that
- these people are significantly a minority
- these people are a serious threat
Most Germans would roll their eyes are such types, the AfD is barely relevant as it is, but this is nothing to be scoffed at.
MORE BROKEN NEWS: the coup lasted two hours before failing.
There ya go America, THAT’S how you handle this sort of thing…
Picking up the pieces, much of this has already gone down. But it looks like he put on a show.
Coups and dictatorships only last as long as you have support of the military and police.
Busy day it seems.
In Brazil, the word for ‘turkey’is ‘Peru’
What do they call Turkey then?
Gobblegobble
Big chicken?
Can anyone explain far left for me?
I don’t know the context for Peru, but generally far left is a socialist / communist end of the political spectrum.
It means left of the USA.
FWIW, extracts from Wikipedia:
He attained political prominence as a leading figure in a school teachers’ strike in 2017 and ran in the 2021 presidential election as the candidate of the Marxist Free Peru party. Castillo announced his presidential candidacy after seeing his students undergo hardships from the lack of resources in rural Peru
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Castillo played in between naming far-left and moderate left-wing cabinets, allegedly under the strong influence of the leader of his party, Vladimir Cerrón, as well as at the same time from more progressive left-wing politicians.[8][9][10] He also appointed members of center and center-right political parties as ministers of state.
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Castillo ultimately left the Free Peru party in June 2022 to govern as an independent
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Castillo has been described as a populist,[134]and social conservative.[135][136][137] He said that he is not a communist or a Chavista.[138] Peru’s attitude towards LGBT rights has generally been hostile and is still heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, and Castillo said to be more in line with his right-wing opponents on social issues, opposing abortion, LGBT rights,[139]same-sex marriage,[140] euthanasia, sex education,[25] and the gender-equality approach in schools;[141][142][143] this put him at odds with the progressive left that has supported him, and whose support to govern is needed.
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Castillo later distanced himself from the far-left of the Free Peru party, stating that “the one who is going to govern is me” and there will be “no communism” in Peru under his government.
Well that’s the absolute last time I take political advice from Napoleon Dynamite.