Peru’s communist former President Pedro Castillo made a formal request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) — an autonomous entity of the Organization of American States (OAS) — on Tuesday for his immediate release from prison and reinstatement as Peru’s head of state.
The foreign affairs commission of the Congress of Peru declared Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro persona non grata on Tuesday after Petro compared the actions of Peru’s National Police in response to the ongoing wave of violent leftist riots there to those of Nazi Germany.
The government of Peru announced a crackdown on “narcoterrorism” on Monday following the massacre of seven police officers by Shining Path, a domestic Marxist terrorist organization that had largely ceased to exist since the 1990s.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced on Sunday that she would soon present two proposals: to hold presidential elections this year, rather than in 2024 as planned, and “total” constitutional reform.
The government of Peru shut down the ancient city of Machu Picchu and evacuated over 400 tourists on Sunday in response to leftist rioters shutting down major highways and burning down critical government buildings nationwide.
A violent, radical leftist mob stormed Lima, Peru, on Thursday, demanding the interim president’s resignation in defense of communist former President Pedro Castillo, currently imprisoned for attempting to stage a coup.
Members of the Peruvian Marxist terrorist organization Shining Path are involved in the ongoing nationwide wave of protests that erupted in Peru, Peru’s National Police (PNP) revealed this weekend.
Peru’s top prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday it would launch a “genocide” and “homicide” inquiry against leftist President Dina Boluarte, her Prime Minister Alberto Otárola, and other members of her cabinet.
Peru’s defense minister Jorge Chávez announced on Thursday that, according to intelligence reports, five Bolivian foreigners entered the country to incite violent leftist riots and promote separatism in the nation’s south.
Peruvian high court investigative judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria sentenced the nation’s former president, Pedro Castillo, on Thursday to serve 18 months in preventive prison on charges of “rebellion” and conspiracy to abuse authority.
Far-left protesters wreaked havoc across Lima, Peru, and other regions of the South American nation on Monday after the impeachment and arrest of former communist president Pedro Castillo.
Dina Boluarte became Peru’s sixth president since 2016 late on Wednesday following the impeachment and arrest of now-former President Pedro Castillo, a widely unpopular communist who had attempted to dissolve the nation’s Congress and invalidate the Constitution on the same day.