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FOLLOWING the coup d’etat against Peru’s democratically elected president Pedro Castillo, Dina Boluarte has become the willing instrument of that country’s oligarchy to preside over an illegal, brutally repressive de facto regime.
These events of 2022 have strong similarities to the establishment of a dictatorship in Bolivia with Jeanine Anez in 2019.
And, as in Bolivia, the domestic ruling oligarchy, the infamous Organisation of American States secretary-general Luis Almagro, and the US embassy were heavily involved.
