Peru
Rocky road ahead for new left-leaning Peruvian government
September 20, 2021Right-wing opposition forces have viciously attacked Castillo and his Perú Libre party. Defamatory media blasts from Peruvian news sources have been constant. Unfounded accusations of electoral fraud persisted for weeks.
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Peru solidarity: Activists show support for Castillo at OAS headquarters in D.C.
September 1, 2021Keiko Fujimori, conservative candidate, claimed the elections were illegitimate, echoing extreme-right reactionaries like Donald Trump and Jeanine Áñez of Bolivia.
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Socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo wins tight victory in Peru
June 11, 2021Castillo’s narrow victory, yet to be officially validated, represents an abrupt shift from Peru’s norm of corruption, right-wing ascendency, and political instability.
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Peru’s corporate-controlled health system crumbling under stress of COVID-19
July 31, 2020The health sector in today’s Peru is teetering on the edge of an abyss.
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Peru ranks oil production over pandemic threat and Indigenous rights
July 9, 2020The capitalist Peruvian state is in shambles. It didn’t prepare to meet the pandemic and long ago cast its population adrift.
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