Peru is in Huge Trouble...
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Explore the riveting and tumultuous journey of Peru's political crisis in our latest video. From the arrest of a sitting president to the rise and fall of Pedro Castillo, this story is a rollercoaster of power, corruption, and chaos. Will Peru find its way out of this crisis, or is it headed towards another dictatorship? Watch now to uncover the shocking truth about Peru's political turmoil.
Simon's Social Media:
Twitter: / simonwhistler
Instagram: / simonwhistler
Love content? Check out Simon's other UA-cam Channels:
Biographics: / @biographics
Geographics: / @geographicstravel
Warographics: / @warographics643
MegaProjects: / @megaprojects9649
SideProjects: / @sideprojects
TopTenz: / toptenznet
Today I Found Out: / todayifoundout
Highlight History: / @highlighthistory
Business Blaze: / @brainblaze6526
Casual Criminalist: / thecasualcriminalist
Decoding the Unknown: / @decodingtheunknown2373
Many times I've been frustrated with how slowly politics move in my country. Watching these vids makes me realize how fortunate I really am to be bored instead of worried.
Pace of politics in more "prominent" nations might be slow, but even a glacial pace can have more immense impact. When each step takes you exponentially quicker toward to abyss, one shouldn't sleep on changes happening in nations who actually have military budgets greater than some nations' entire GDP.
@schemage2210 The US won’t be turning into a dictatorship any time soon, regardless of what the media tells you. Trump or Biden, it doesn’t matter.
Better to have a boring politics, than to have populist clowns in power.
@@HShango Amen.. Just ask the UK during BoJo.. I know that's far from what Peru's going through but in terms of Europe, the UK under BoJo was a bad circus.
@@0Zero_ Our current PM was the one who pushed eat out to help out, during the pandemic. Thanks to him everybody in the restaurant I was working at got covid after we had to deal with 3x the amount of customers due to this stupid plan. I now have chronic pain after recovering. I will never forgive Boris Johnson and Rishy Sunak for the damage they've caused because of ignorance
"Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language." -- Daniel Alarcon
Too many Latinos?
Oh Gawd No Please
All they do is turn w/e country they migrate to into the country they fled. Rapefugees
That is a sad commentary
on the country.
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
Peru is even attracting migration from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Vietnam, Malaysia.
Our biggest problem is that the Venezuelan Dictatorship is sending terrorists, who organize themselves into criminal gangs, such as "Tren de Aragua" to torment the Peruvian population.
And the United States Government is making deals with the inhumane Dictatorship of Venezuela. Harming a Democracy like Peru.
Peru is so bad that we have the lowest inflation on the continent.
We are not enslaving our population with 70% taxes like in Argentina.
We are not putting our citizens in prison for buying or selling dollars like in Bolivia or Argentina.
We are not doing business with the Putin Dictator in Russia, nor with the Iran\Hamas terrorists, as many of the Latin countries do.
As a native of Poland, I know exactly what happens when the people in charge are allowed this kind of power. People start disappearing, and the rest are brainwashed into believing whatever narrative explains it. The fact that this is happening in this day and age is terrifying.
I’m from Cuba and I completely agree. Living in the USA now and watching idiots on the street chanting in favor of socialism and communism is insane to me🤦♂️
@@eddyram4932Personally, I think it's crazy that people are incapable of differentiating between single-payer healthcare and hereditary authoritarian communism. I've never heard someone seriously advocate for any genuine communism, yet the entire conservative movement in this country wields 1970s Red Scare shit as a reason to not address our absolutely rotten, corrupt healthcare system.
Literally insane.
If only a measured, leisurely progressive / reformed capitalism had the same appeal, it may well be achieved.
Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta poor. It is what it is.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat
It is more complex than that.
Goods produced cheaply by
machine and improved
transport (Industrial Revolution,
along with capitalism) raised
the standard of living for
millions. Prior to the Industrial
Revolution rural poverty was
rampant. However the
transition to mechanized
farming allowed people to
leave the countryside.
The "middle-road" of a social
welfare state has insured
more equitable access to
education
The welfare state has raised
the standard of living for
people that would have been
a pipe dream of pre-WW1
people.
But the welfare state requires
more people contributing to
the common pot; rather than
draining it.
I would honestly love a separate piece on Fujimori specifically and for no other reason than Simon calling him a 'different flavour of crazy'.
Indeed! The constitution from his dictatorship is literally still in power, so to understand it a deeper understanding of Fujimari is needed.
it's not that it's needed, it benefits pretty much the people in power and they will never do anything to minimize the power they hold
Fujimori would make a great Biographics. The Japanese Embassy fiasco, The Shining Path, resigns by fax from Japan and then returns? A 'different flavour of crazy' indeed.
Peruvian here 🙂 My mom told me the other day "the reason why Peru doesn't have a drug cartel problem, is because of Fujimori, because of him the government is the drug cartel". He was responsible for many disappearances, killings, and the forced sterilizations of more than 300,000 Peruvians (the majority impoverished or indigenous women). He fled the country and resigned by fax, later on he claimed Japanese nationality and try to get elected to the Japanese congress.
@@-Pam_Guti I'm not an expert on your country's history, but I guess that brought some benefits from a sinister point of view. Instead of having a cartel war like Mexico you have state sponsored violence and the illusion of safety for a while. The problem is, you can be the victim of political prosecution. But now it seems the system has devolved totally into a terror state.
Venezuela is also a county that could be covered in a similar manner.
Ahhh, Venezuela is by now a failed state ....
It's been a dictatorship since Chavez took over😂 Can't turn into something you have been for 2 decades.
The way Castillo got arrested due to being stuck in traffic is beyond bizarre. Lima has some of the most atrocious traffic I've ever experienced. I was there last year and the car service that picked me up at the airport got rear ended by a bus right after leaving the airport! The fact Castillo thought he would drive off shows little foresight. A helicopter escape like Fernando de la Rua would have been slightly more obvious!
A helicopter has a lot more possibility that "an accident" happens and he's dead. Just look at rwandas former president.
he was caught because the people that work around him leaked him talking about asking for mexico taking him as political refugee . when he go to the embassy of mexico police was wainting . not only was for the traffic . probably police was alerted the instant that he left the building , maybe his family leak also . remember that his family flee at the same time but they could travel because they werent never under arrest or something . just castillo
@@terranox17 thanks for the additional data points. In this case, he definitely should have used a helicopter!
"You can run away from the Police, the military and the people, but you cannot run from Lima's traffic"
I live in Perú, for i know his driver take him to justice.
It’s incredible how u managed to learn and explain Peruvian politics. It’s a VERY complicated subject, filled with corruption scandals and organized mafia. It’s a beautiful country with amazing people but its still light years away from stability.
Cause Peru politics isn't that complex.
😢😢 true
Not true. The corrupt is Castillo. Peru is still following the constitution and putting all corrupt presidents in jail. That doesn't happen even in the US
Others write the scripts for him.
I'm personally proud of my Peruvian neighbors' strong institutions. In basically any other country, this level of corruption would mean total lack of accountability, but in Peru, despite the total and irredimable corruption of the whole political class and all individual actors, the democratic institutions remain standing and the actual presidents get locked up for their crimes. I don't think I have ever heard of more robust institutions than that. Saludos desde Chile.
The only difference with G7 countries is we don't prosecute our criminals.
🎯 🎯🎯🎯
Well, you could say that until maybe 2020. Now the Congress-Executive alliance has concentrated as much power as to control Public Attorney's Office, Constitutional Court, Ombudsman's Office and more
Peru also happens to have one of the most stable currencies in Latin America.
All thanks to our ministry of economy
@@TomLostWave all thanks to Belarde.
@@issaelynuma9001 the start of all this BS, as we say here "El Perú es un mendigo sentado en un banco de oro"
@@issaelynuma9001Velarde
Peru is a strange case of a country where all the people in power are garbage, but the actual institutions are strong. The fact that Peru remains a functioning democracy through all this corruption is incredible.
The US State Dept. says Peru is a place to be very careful and the say to avoid a lot of places. The statement on the website is a must read for anyone traveling to Peru.
It’s sad…I was in Peru around 2009 on a family vacation…Lima was cool, the Amazon was awesome, Machu Picchu was mind blowing! I hope things work out for the ppl of Peru, they are great ppl!
Agreed! Loved Lima, Machu Picchu and even Huacachina. Peru has the strangest landscapes and awesome people!
I'm from Peru, don't believe everything you watch at youtube
Bro rlly named cool to the 5% of Lima at max ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
I’m Peruvian and I can tell you the vast majority are racists, classists, against their own felling citizens.
@@luisdiaz-cz5gk indeed!
I've lived in Peru most of my life. And have thus been able to witness all of these events first hand. A good video Simon and crew. Apart from a video about Alberto Fujimory, one about his spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos would be very interesting indeed. Fujimory and Montesinos were referred to as the siamese twins: Fujimory needed Montesinos to misappropriate 600 million dollars, and Montesinos needed Fujimory to carry out his drug trafficking business. As reference, the book 'The Imperfect Spy', coauthored by Jane Holligan and Sally Bowen makes for a very good reading, if not the source of information for a video about V. Montesinos. What went on at that time is surrealistic.
Man, I am really bummed to not be able to find an audiobook of this
@@SphenForTheWin try reading.
@@Jhunta Oh trust, I do. But cancer limits my eyes' stamina these years.
@@SphenForTheWin oh. srry to hear brother. glad to know you're still living to your fullest, despite your challenges. keep at it, brother and God bless.
Even with all his flaws, he was a necessary evil because central bank and the inflation from former president García
Fascinating that you've made a video on this. I'm American, but both my parents are from Peru, and I've spent a lot of time there. I have a lot of family still living there, and it saddens me that the country is still being held back by systemic corruption. Thank you for spreading awareness.
Corrupción hay en todos lados, lol, lo que nunca hubo fue personas que al menos tengan la decencia de robar solo de los ingresos que el mismo país produzca, y no venderse a la corrupción internacional o a las potencias
And there is no corruption in the USA?😉🤔🤣
Peru is in America 🤷♂️
@@Shadow__133 es gringo, llama América a usa, es normal, no tienen como llamarse
Lol if your parents are from Peru you were already American.....
I visited Peru about 20yrs ago had an amazing time, great people and stunning scenery.
Whilst walking down an alley in Puno I got stopped by 2 policemen, one of who took out a bag of weed from his pocket and told me that it was mine and that I had to pay a fine or they would take me to the local police station, cost me about $50.😮
So what you are telling me is that I should not visit Peru? Not because of the civilians who are probably incredible people, but because of the corrupt police and politicians.
@@troybaxter I would still recommend Peru as a must visit country, it really is an amazing place.
@@naebodyknows7016 it sounds amazing. You know, I am just concerned about corrupt politicians and police screwing over a tourist for no real reason other than to extort money out of me.
Cops in Ottawa, Canada, did that to me. Not a bag of weed, a supposed traffic violation.
Mate, how lucky of you, most people just come to Peru to take photos with the mountains and try food, but you as a foreign got to live the real National experience right there! Not every foreign guy manages to get that one because our policemen are sometimes more racist than interested assholes, and they prefer to screw the local unwhite unrich people of the country...
But seriously, i'm sorry you had to go through that, and as i weirdly tried to imply before, that isn't the common experience of tourists i've met so far, so y'all don't need to fear that one since it's an exception...
On sexual harrassment on the other hand...
A Fujimori episode or an episode regarding his handling of Shining Path would be appreciated.
There's already an episode covering this
I've lived in Peru for the last 5 years and have seen this fiasco in real-time. Just like in other countries, the rich/powerful prevail, while the regular people struggle.
I've lived in Peru my whole life, (I'm Peruvian) and the problem never were the rich or thw wealthy, in what goverments, the state have risen taxes? Like the IGV (GENERAL TAX TO SALES)? Wasn't Antauro Humala? A socialist, every single time socialism reached power Perú gets worst, but please, even those that call themselves capitalist are no other thing than hypocrites. Yes those that are wealthy prevail, because they found succes either by luck, knowledge or hardwork they have earned their pennies, those that are poor, is because the state bills 18% in taxes is 10% more than you will ever pay in the US and I live in NewYork state... the problem will never be those that by hard work or luck had found success, if that is a sin, then may God judge us all and send us to hell.
@@kevindelgado2982los malos son los resentidos. Si se largaran los caviares el Perú se volvería una potencia mundial
The left is the problem, I’ve just brought my parents over from 🇵🇪 Peru because of the disaster that was Castillo and the blowback from his presidency.
The uneducated, and if you live there you know they are uneducated, continue to push things to the left. The left has Ben a scourge on Latin American politics that keeps holding back progress in addition to corruption.
I would love more videos about Peruvian politics, it's fascinating
Peruvian here. Props for the balanced view on our situation, perhaps a bit short on how much this is affecting the people, but either way, very sober portrayal of a country being savaged and left for parts by leeches pretending to be politicians. The root cause if the Fujimorism way of doing things: bribe, steal and keep on bribing.
As a Peruvian, I can tell you truly that nobody is talking about this but we’re literally driving our country into a wall right now. Castillo basically told us he wanted to turn Peru into the next Venezuela and then went and tried. I’ve heard Boluarte is even worse than him! To the point where I know so many people leaving the country including my best friend and her boyfriend who came to live with me in Canada!
Alberto Fujimori's dictatorship caused all this. The economical growth under his unlegitimate dictatorship marginalized democracy, his constitution is literally still in power.. So nobody is talking about it, because Peruvians themselves prefer leaders like Fujimori (with economical growth) instead of a healthy democracy.
Castillo didn't said that, his political party leader did and it was a constant struggle even in electoral terms
Fujimori, like Pinochet, caused enormous division in opinion. Yes, he was corrupt, violent and dictatorial.
However, he marginalized the Shining Path and and got the economy back on track.
That's way more than can be said about Garcias first go as president.
I think the tragic part of Peruvian politics is (and Simon missed kind of got this wrong) is that the ruling elite in Lima know how to run things better than the rural factions, they have always had the instinct to shelter money and power in Lima.
The outsiders of Lima are shut out wrongly. However, they embrace stupid political ideas.
For 19 years, it's been frustrating to watch.
Except Fujimori didn't killed criminals, on evidence he killed innocent people and journalists while shutting down the media when he did the coup, i don't think he really fixed the economy, it's more like it fixes itself even now it does and yes, it could be said political parties in lima are more competent but they're the ones who caused this, they overly do anything for lima while neglecting the other states, we live this as if we want a better medical treatment the people have to go to lima, and yes it's frustrating
@@justinpaul3110 Very true, but isn't that just a small katalysator of the situation ? In almost every country there is a big polarisation between the city and the rural areas. Look at the Netherlands (rural and urban polarisation) for example with the political party "BBB" winning a huge amount of seats in 1 election but yet there you don't see coups like in Peru. Spain (central Spain gets more revenue than the other areas), Portugal, Germany( East and West predominently) also has the same problem.
But I think this one is just a typical resource curse with a people like in Saudi Arabia and Russia have no significant democratic tradition but a social contract with the government.
As a Peruvian with formation in social sciences you have no idea how exhausting these last 7 years have been.
poor baby
@@backintimealwyn5736 I mean , trying to disprove bigots, slanderers and murder advocates every day and feeling like talking to a wall is not easy, but yeah, "poor baby"
@@luispereztassoMilei just won in Argentina. They’re in for a rude awakening
@@WTFisthe911 I hope he will be as any other extreme right wing politician here and just be corrupt, do nothing, blame other politicans or conspiracy theories, and betray all his advocates by not fulfilling his promises in the end, taking down his party in the process. Hard times are coming to Argentina :(
@@luispereztassoal fin alguien sensato ,la verdad esque va a ser de lo mismo su misma ideología lo dice así.
oh yes please can we have a vidéo on Fujimori !
Nobody never talks about the crisis in Peru thank you for shedding light upon it !
Boluarte says and does some bizarre things (which is actually a typical thing for Peruvian presidents, such as when reporters call one ex-P's home and he claims he's a housekeeper despite having a distinct voice and they know it's him). She keeps claiming that she officially meets with President Biden to talk when all they do is shake hands for a photo opp. Or when the Pope reluctantly met her, her wearing all black, and he's frowning and not happy to meet this crazy woman, and she tells the press that he was sick. Then they show photos of the leader he met after her and he's smiling, having a good time, etc. She keeps saying and doing these weird things to try to save face and then gets called out for her BS. But lying about trivial things and corruption is a common trend here.
She's trying to show she has the respect and validation from other presidents (she doesn't), my friend who works at El Comercio told me, she just went on a holiday around the world with our taxes, no plan, no schedule or arranged meetings
I’m Venezuelan and I visited Lima back in 2014. Back then, it looked, through the eyes of a tourist hailing from another country mired in corruption and inefficiency, that Peru was at least making its way towards some semblance of stability and progress. I’m only halfway through the video and have had to rewind a few times to keep up with the political rollercoaster ride; it must be confusing and tiresome to live under such rapid switches, although believe me, I believe I prefer that to the alternative we live in my country, where the same dudes have been in power for the last 23 years and most positions of power have been shuffled between the same cadre for that length of time.
the same dudes been in power here in Peru for 200 years
@@richa510acomplejado 😊
La misma respuesta vacia de la misma gente
@@richa510 el mismo reclamo de la misma gente.
@@blueunicorn8665 cuando haces los cambios pacificos imposibles habilitas que sucedan violentamente, y no lo digo yo, lo dijo un Kennedy, pero como la gente no entiende desde sus posiciones de comodidad esa violencia es ciclica
My girlfriends family is from Peru… and I’m from the US.. she’s humbled me and really kept me even more humble about where I’m from.. Americans are so spoiled
Its a miracle dont see trolls or people who likes to generate controversy against the truth, thanks simon
I’m kinda amazed with how diverse Peru’s Presidents have been from a Japanese-Peruvian and a woman although quite a corruption problem going on there… on cartoonish levels. I hope Peru can finally have a president who isn’t a dirt bag.
Fujimori junior (herself a Japanese descedendant) has lost to a Lima-born, brown antiterrorist veteran social democrat; to a white Polish and French descendant libertarian banker; and to a hinterland-born, brown, union leader running with a communist agenda. All of them corrupt
It is a weird case of intolerance towards corruption. I challenge you to find another country that is prepared to pay the "political" price of prosecuting former or even current presidents. In my country, there is basically zero tolerance for corruption at the highest levels.
...and then again, our political leaders seem not to have got the memo and keep trying. And they always get caught. Lets chalk it up to "we have a very good track record of prosecution thanks to our JUDICIAL system, but the popular JUDGEMENT at election time is almost primitive". We like to joke and say that it is not the next Presidente (President in English) that we are electing, but the next Presidiario (Inmate in English).
Boluarte was not elected. She was Castillo's vicepresident.
@@ribps289 that is completely incorrect. In Perú, like in the US, we vote for a ticket, i.e. president and 2 vice presidents. It is incorrect to imply that she was not elected, she was and got to the presidency on a constitutional succession, no matter how traumatic (they are always are)
@@raulantunezdemayolo technically correct. Although Castillo voters don't know how democracy works and just wanted him to be a dictator (he promised to be a communist dictator in his campaign). Didn't matter who he had as vicepresident, he could've had a dog as as vicepresident and won anyways because his plan and himself were so popular. So yeah we voted both for Boluarte and Castillo (I voted Keiko but democracy voted Castillo so let's respect that), like it or not, even if Boluarte backstabbed Castillo after.
Let's not be unfair to Castillo voters. People hate congress. 90% of Peruvians if not higher hates congress and want it replaced. And over half of the population want the whole institution gone. So a big chunk of Keiko voters or any voter really, only cares for getting the president in office.
Vicepresidents and Congressmen are just filler, we vote them because we are forced to.
I was a teen in the 90s, growing up in what is usually considered part of the "western world", in Germany and I am pretty sure this is the first time I ever heard anyone call Fujimori a dictator. Back in the day the media just treated him like a regular politician and a curiosity, being a Japanese man ruling a Latin American country. All I remember about him back then was seeing him standing around with other world leaders at some of those big international summits and being treated like any other head of state.
All I knew about him was the hostage crisis and that he took a lot of cash and bolted to Japan.
I believe "Democratically elected semi-authoritarian head of state" may suit him better than "dictator". Usually countries with this style of government fall in the category of a "Hybrid regime", where the people still get to elect their government in a fixed electoral term, but the elected authority regularly abuses its power.
Fujimori was as much of a dictator as now Salvadorian president Bukele. While the dictator is getting good results, pulling the country out of the shitter, no one wants to call him a dictator.
He basically did the self-coup maneuver. As it was one of the first if not the first doing that in Latin America, people were always looking for where another "Fujimorazo" could happen.
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
“Whether or not Peru slides back into another dictatorship, only Peru can decide that”
The CIA: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
CÍA and US military power have not been used in such way in ye rest of the Americas since the Clinton administration. Only exception has been military support for a coup attempt in Venezuela during Trump
Nah, in Peru no coup d'état was promoted by the CIA, we do that alone
Fascinating. They may have a political crisis, but their GDP is actually growing quite strong.
economic performance is the hallmark of a strong government. Unfortunately its strength comes from an iron fist rather than anything else. And no one actually benefits apart from the presidency and elites.
Free Peru seems like an odd name for a relatively new political party, give the country has been independent for nearly 200 years before the party existed.
Out of touch with the situation on the ground are we?
It was first named "Perú Libertario " (Libertarian Peru). Quite a name for a Marxist communist party
Shame as an Ecuadorian, Seeing my neighbors in the region being raked over the coals by a dogmatic authoritarian government. Even after the wars between us all I want is for every people to have the rights to speak against the government and right to Public Demonstration.
Naw man eff Peru, lets get Iquitos back
@@David_AC90 Guayaquil is from Peru :v
@@fandenovelas777 Nunca.
@@rodycaz8984nos tuvieron que sacar de Guayaquil, a la proxima no esperen la ayuda de papi Brasil.
At the time I'm apparently the 60th person to like this *INCREDIBLY* important international story even though 100,000 people have viewed it before me.
THANK YOU for making this, Simon. Please keep doing topics like this and ignore the short-term engagement metrics.
You touched on the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. And it is a weird story deserving a double episode. That's because of a second character who was running El Chino, as the people called Japanese Peruvian president, out of public view. His name is Vladimiro Montesinos. Unless he's dead now, he's serving a long sentence in the same prison as the man he put away, the former commander of the Sendero Luminoso. Suffice it to say, Montesinos both enabled and fought cocaine traffickers. There's more, much more to the story of El Chino and the man named after their hero by his Communist parents. You gotta run that story. It's just your cup of tea.
In case Simon/Writers miss your comment, where can I read more myself? Hehe
that is gonna be an issue , the vast majority of academic and periodistic actual people are very left and the old literature until like 15 years ago are very right and quickly very left just when the upper class that flee the country during terrorism went back with left views . even worst if you divide into literature in english or spanish . if you read facebook in spanish yo would see peruvians that are less than 40 years saying that fujimori and saying that was the hitler and trump and the devil of peru . if you ask people that live in that era the opinions wouls be divided between people that live the bloody conflict see the dead people and desert towns with all executed before fujimori and the ones that want socialism or populism that say that fight the guerrillas with guerrilla tactis was too much even if the last 10 years and before fujimori even was a candidate , the number of killed by the terrorismo were in like 50k with body parts and police being crucified in the road . and everybody forgot that china and rusia finance and trained the terrorist leaders . that many times have urrs studies and money , chinesse weapons and mao-doctrine in the case of sendero luminoso , the biggest faction of the three that form in that time , everyone of them compiting to take the power for them@@jtau87
3:08 The reasons for his 'escape' was because the 'Vladivideos' were revealed. A series of secret recordings made by Fujimori's advisor where he bribed all kinds of powerful figures. From television channel owners, actors to politicians and generals. People didn't like it of course...And Fujimori would end up escaping to Japan and resigning by fax.
8:39 Correction: She did choose to support Congress in that decision. In fact, she was inside the congress and technically she counts as the president of the shortest Peru in history, for half an hour.
11:50 The reason why Castillo achieved so much time in power despite the opposition was due to the favors he negotiated with the congressmen themselves, favors that they did not want to recognize but that they still accepted and the results were shown in the votes to recall Castillo.
13:43 Dina had several constitutional accusations from Congress against her, which related her to Cerron, the founder of Castillo's party. However, just a few days before Castillo delivered his message to the nation, all of Dina's accusations were filed.
17:05 Dina Boluarte has given a blank check to Congress to destroy Vizcarra's electoral reforms: the re-elections of congressmen have been approved, primary voting has been eliminated, now political parties no longer need militants but citizens' signatures, create a senate where they can only enter former congressmen, dissolve regional political parties to concentrate all political power in the capital, etc., etc. And behind all this, is Keiko Fujimori.
My friend, I was born under a dictatorship that has been in place for over 60 years😂 now living in the USA, I see people chanting in the streets that they want socialism and dictatorships. People really have no idea how bad it can get.
Wait, there are free people that wants to be enslaved??
Not all socialist states are bad, much like not all capitalist states are shit holes like America. Regardless if it's public or private it all comes down to who is turning the gears.
Coming from the UK I know that our leaders will NEVER be arrested let alone actually held accountable for their actions.
BSE, Covid, the 2nd Gulf war and the latest Afghanistan war are just some of the examples that have gone unpunished.
THIS ×10000
Ya why don’t you try actually studying all those things before commenting that
A lot of those aren’t punishable offenses.
@@matthewdopler8997 * in the UK.. the question is, why not?
BSE was a long time coming as farmers fed their livestock with feed full of animal matter inc their own species despite warnings. You could say the govt were slow enforcing and creating laws to stop them.
Covid, a very difficult virus to detect which people could carry and transmit yet have no symptoms. Yeah good luck stopping that. We should never have trusted politicians to run things. Other countries handed powers to the experts and it worked. I was more annoyed at the care homes allowing visitors and had no protocols and wondered why they lost elderly in droves. Boris was useless because he was voted in to do one thing. Get on with Brexit.
2nd Gulf War I was in and yeah the WMD excuse was no excuse imo. Saddam had used chemical weapons in his war on Iran and his own people many times putting down revolts. He was an idiot not to let the UN in which Putin had advised him to do. I deployed many times to Kuwait because every year he’d mass troops on Kuwaiti border to cause a reaction. Bush had had enough of that. That’s why we invaded. Costed us all a fortune protecting Kuwait.
Afghanistan was an article 5 call up. The Taliban had been in rule for years and we didn’t give two monkeys about their regime until they helped hide Bin Laden and his pals. If they’d coughed them up we wouldn’t have been there decades. I was there a few times, first time supporting SF who worked with the Northern Alliance and our jets and I was quite disappointed in the Taliban. They ran away. I was expecting far harder times. 2002 the Taliban rang the new President and offered surrender but with one caveat. No Taliban get prosecuted for fighting. The idiot Karzai said no.
We should have walked away right then. Not every little thing wrong on our lives is purely the govt’s fault.
Thanks for covering this, Simon.
I generally don't know much about peru. So this is very interesting.
Furthermore, the best first action against trouble, is knowledge.
A very interesting video and I'd love to see a video about Fujimori's dictatorship and the Shining Path! 😊
I'm from Ecuador, and I just happened to be in Lima the day Castillo got arrested. I travelled there for a concert (which, believe or not, did end up taking place). Insane experience.
Ey, nice video and all that. But why did you not mention the corruption surrounding Castillo itself in more detail? Not only his cabinet members. Also, the alledged links his party had to criminal groups?
Agree. Summarizing job is grateful though
Yes please will you do a video on Fujimori. I would love to learn about other countries crazy political landscapes.
Hi from Perú.
Congratulations for a very well researched script. You don't see this type of objective takes from the mainstream media here in Lima. They're all with the government ❤
As a Peruvian American I would love a video on Fujimori! My parents and some family in Peru love Fujimori ardently and are either unaware or purposely overlook his crimes and deny he was a dictator
he do what was needed to do . 50k deaths before he even was a candidate . the terrorist take childrens hostage and soldiers and in case of girls , night entertainment . they leave entire towns empty when they ask for goverment help . body parts and police being crucified in the road was something of everyday , extortions , ransom money , teachers beng threats into teach maos red book peruvian version , military families being killed , bombs in electric dams , doctors being taken as slaves , bussiness being looted "for the cause" and all this was generalized BEFORE fujimori . fujimori fight guerrilla war with guerrilla war . was the only solution . the presidents like garcia and before just ignore the problem because they dont want being see as opressors and risk reelection . he was a dictator and comit crimes? yes . there was another way? no . there was no pacific and democratic way to doit , even the congress have part influenced by the URRS . just to make you a example . the urrs built a giant hotel / cabaret whit russian teens and girls where congressman reunite to make laws and deals after lunch , the hotel was closed when the urrs fall . now is a apartment complex very well built . at like 80 meters from the congress . the economical spheres of usa and urrs was the issue in the 80s . that was the thing that nobody talk about . the urrs and china finance and trained people to make coups and elections in all latinoamerica , just like cuba and venezuela in the same way that usa finance coups and elections in the same decade but the urrs was more desperate because usa could cought more money and china/urrs take the guerrilla route like afghanistan and rusia or vietnam with usa where you just fund a faction that would work with you instead of direct action
Its because the good that came during his admin far outweighed the negative. The worst people like to complain about, was the sterilization of some folks living in illegal settlements. But look at it this way, they were being constantly being killed by landslides and told not to settle in those areas. Plus they never practiced contriception and were just popping out kids all willy-nilly. Hardly a crime against humanity. A lot of the people thar complain were even alive during the period of terrorism also. They even (not all) wanted alan garcia to be freed, and would vote for alan garcia a second friggin time
Because the positives outweight the negatives
@@stoned_kakapo8736 And the fact that you fail to see the "some folks who lived in illegal settlements" who "[are] popping out kids willy-nilly" as people is the reason why you don't understand crimes against humanity. Next, please.
@@Seeker52 you can't have kids, BIG WHOOP. But also, would you rather they keep living there while suffering many deaths during rainy times, year after year?
Gee..."if you don't learn from the past, you're bound to ...."
yeah, that's the phrase. Just as (neo-)Naziism is rising in Europe and the continent gets more and more militarized. Learn from history or else you will repeat it.
I'M PERUVIAN AN THIS IS COMPLETELY BIASED.
SOY PERUANO Y ESTO.ES COMPLETAMENTE SESGADO
Porfavor puede esplicar? Porque también estoy pensando lo mismo
If you do a Fujimori video, the museum "Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM)" in Miraflores has a ton of information, photos, and videos about the political turmoil before, during and after Fujimori's time in office. They might be a good resource to reach out to. Also, random, I regularly walk by the former Japanese embassy that was the scene of a deadly hostage crisis during his tenure.
Peruvian here. Great work and looking forward to the Fujimori video.
As a Peruvian and living in Lima, good video but I feel things were simplified or lacked nuance to take the correct approach in the analysis
Most South American countries are at the same situation or going to experience this on the following years.
The US itself will as well.
@@PrimericanIdol Hardly, the people and the world trusts on USA when it comes to investiments, while South American countries are well known for corruption and economic crisis all the time as they have no solid projects for economics and all it needs to achieve stability for long, depending only in commodities and other natural findings.
@@PrimericanIdol As it stands, this is unlikely. The US lacks two factors that would allow something like this to happen. 1, Despite what many may believe, the US legal system still works *enough*. The simple example is despite the decent attempt by Republicans and Trump, Trump is still in multiple courts and his cohorts are taking plea deals more and more. 2, the average person is simply not desperate enough to be willing to take a chance at revolution or insurgency. Not enough in numbers and not with enough support. You don't force a movement if you don't think life will get better for sure. But for life to get better **for sure**, it has to be pretty damn bad to start with.
Why do these people look asian
@@will891410 Are you still living in the 90s? Wake up. With the increasing Dedollarization going on, the impending economic collapse, and political upheaval, all of those positive attributes you impute on the US will evaporate.
should of made this into a much longer video. a topic like this is worthy of your time
I think enough people have shown interest that it will happen.
Yes please do a video on Fujimori, I only vaguely remember him being in the news.
We here in LATAM never get a break
Lots of places can't catch a break. Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. It's a sad and violent world we live in, eh?
Sad. Peru is one LATAM country I can't wait to visit actually.
It is disheartening to hear this information on Peruvian politics. I love Peru! I have been there three times as a tourist over the past two years, most recently seven weeks in April and May of 2023. The people are friendly, helpful, and hospitable. The history and architecture are incredible. The natural beauty of the deserts, the Andes, and the jungles is spectacular. I can only wish the citizens of Peru better times ahead. I am planning another journey there after Christmas for two or three months. It is a marvelous country.
Wow
When You describe how the elite in Peru fight against positive change it sounds EXACTLY like the U.S.
I have been living in Colombia for almost ten years and spend a lot of time in Lima. Honestly a very good story making what I think is the most important point. Peru doesn't have a left/right/center problem. It has a deeply entrenched system of political corruption that means anyone who leaves office probably SHOULD go to jail. So keeping out of jail is everyone's priority, which makes sense from each individual perspective, but it's not a way that a state can be run. Peru should be a successful place, it has a ton of things going for it. Including the greatest cuisine on the planet. But until it's politics is functional it's not going to do much better. Again, surprisingly good clip.
I'm a chilean of peruvian inmigrant parents and Chile too has a lot of injustices, shady power connections and unfortunate ties between a yet not established democracy and economic power concentrated in hands of few. But BUT seeing the situation for my family makes me glad Chile kinda takes it time. Its frustrating as HELL, but at the same time one has to appreciate when "ok, this didn't work -let's respect time and processes and do it again respecting democratic tools."
Like don't get me wrong, there's presidents I wished we had pushed out and many individuals I wished we could put in prison, and I certainly wish political party renewal worked faster.... but democracy of steady institutions is long term better (not perfect!) than constant impeachments and voting for outliers just because they have "not evil politicians like the elite!!1!"
Don't even bother asking us if we want more content and tangents. The answer is always yes.
Facts. We want to hear more from our favorite Fact Boy.
Oh wow I hadn't heard anything about this
At least in Peru crooked politicians go to jail unlike Tony Blair, Trump, Nixon, etc., etc., etc.
Well done Simon. Many broad strokes were made to explain the Peruvian crisis, but for those who aren't informed of the situation .... this covers the meat and potatoes of the situation.
At this point this is either a troll comment or people have turned their brains off. This is not a channel of simon. Simon is a payed presenter, payed for by a multi million dollar company that makes its money off of "independent looking" youtube channels, which is a form of propaganda by definition, and a media monopoly aswell.
Every time you see Simon you can expect the same political ideology, not because it's his channels but because he gets payed by the same neo liberal propaganda machine all the time.
no is not . that is just the left version . 3/4 of the country want the president that try to close the congress out , the 1/4 that of the country (the south) have some unions that make the protests . and the protest ended in the capital 2 days later after the 8 people that pay them were detained to being asked from who are the money coming to offer 50 soles by day to protest . and in the south ended when the anual budget ended withouth adding money to "social programs" that just benefit those unions of 25k people" the protests ended too , all was about money that the old president promise if they support him . 2500 soles as universal salary just for exist , 5000 for his private police called "ronderos" and 10k for teachers and also for every big group that could make violent activism . the money that was found was traced to illegal minery , drug lords in the amazonas border and the goverment of bolivia that benefit directly of the investement in mining proyects in the region , many proyects went to them and chile . even 30 new buses come from bolivia with plaque numbers of bolivia recluting people for 300 soles to go to the capital and protest . they even offer food and lodging . they were even persecuted by people in neiborhoods when nobody rally with them and anounce that would start fires in houses if they not come to the protests , that day 400 protestatns flee the district of callao for their lifes when 800 peoples feed up of their threats
I don’t know, I live in the States and we seem to be getting closer and closer every day. It’s entirely possibly our next President will be in office from prison.
You have no idea how good you have it until you go to South America.
This political turmoil here is NOTHING compared to Peru.
Nothing.
@justinpaul3110 just wait.democrats are nor starting ww3 for nothing.
Really awful take bro. Castillo launched a coup and was removed for that reason alone. It really is that simple.
Not for that reason alone. Congress had been wanting to get rid of him for months, for the flimsiest and poorly supported arguments you can imagine. Castillo was just foolish enough to play into their hands and launch the worst planned coup attempt in our history. I mean, the guy did not even know how to do a proper coup which any authoritarian should know
@@rosabellavitaalvarez-calde5836so it looks like he was too incompetent to even be president, nothing of value was lost.
I really hope life gets better in Peru.
As peruvian, this last 7 years have being exhausting.
Btw. Take a look at Antauro Humala (Ollanta’s brother) he is already doing his campaign for the next presidency
Thank you . Informative and super entertaining.
Ah, (part of) the Fujimori/Shining Path video I'd hoped Simon would make. Yes, Simon, please make a more in-depth video on Fujimori and Shining Path/Sendero Luminoso.
Jebus, that place makes our American politicians seem like saintly law abiding do-gooders.
Naa, it shows us where US politics are headed. None of this seems out of bounds for some of those clowns.
Our politicians are just more unified in their corruption, nobody wants to call anyone out because they're all guilty of the same shit. All their "disagreements" are just political theater, for the voters.
@@techn1kal1ty EXACTLY.. and they're uncloaking as we watch. Neither side is doing anything to stop it either. But I noticed that decades ago. Listen to their words, but WATCH their actions is my moto. It tells you EVERYTHING.
@@techn1kal1ty I'm really trying not to be a pessimist, but... 😒
No way, i actually prefer the stupid congressmen we have as leaders, everything but the kid sniffing Joe Biden
As a peruvian, I'm both saddened and excited that our country features in one of your videos. I hope all the current politicians go out of office
You should do an episode on SAA Flight 295 and the never ending controversy over what caused the freight fire that brought the plane down in 1987.
The crash has been investigated twice (once in 1987/88, once during the truth and reconciliation commission hearings in the 90's) yet no one can agree upon what exactly caused the fire in the aft cabin cargo area.
The initial investigation noted that the fire never burned anywhere near the floor and that the inferno was hot enough that it began melting and deforming the outer skin of the aircraft from the inside which led independent investigators to believe that the fire was a self sustaining fire fed by chemicals that were self oxidizing which led them to believe that potentially the freight manifests were doctored to hide the fact the government was using the flight to transfer banned arms materials from asia to south africa.
The second investigation reported back that the source of the fire was of "undetermined origin" and therefore couldn't be explained...which no one believed.
Yea that plane was full of weapons and was sabotaged by......a foreign entity that did not appreciate where they were coming from and who they were going to.
I see things differently. Fujimori, a dictator surely enough, established strong institutions, something that is virtually unknown in the region and of course in Peru as well, historically. The fact that so many former Peruvian presidents have been convicted might be seen as evidence for strong and independent institutions. With similar situations in neighboring counties, we have yet to see the first former president serving time. The likes of S&P or Moody's seem to agree, giving Peru some of the best if not the best Country Risk assessments in the region. Castillo tried to go for the self-coup you mentioned, but unsuccessfully. Ecuador's current president was similarly boycotted by Congress but opted for a constitutional solution. As for corruption: I see hardly any difference with neighboring countries. These coincidences are not good for Peru, they are terrible news for the entire region.
which strong institution you talking about??? Fujimori destroyed everything and he and his constitution is the reason we are in this mess
As a peruvian living here, what I'm seeing, after reading some comments and see the video, is that it seems that both, are "some" leftists... 🤔 For example, these "poor babies" as you practically call them (the protesters) has burnt alive some cops, and other horrible things like that in that time, things that "are not normal" to see in Perú, but these protesters (a lot of them guided by cuban communists) have done it. Then the video is too, but too alarmist (trying not to say there are false statements). And as I've seen in another comment, you can walk here extremely safe also if you have a with a flag saying 'I hate you Boluarte', we don't have any secret police service or anything like that!
In the other hand, I can admit that we have another real problems, like for example (and now I agree with you) the corruption in a lot of statements, and something in which you have to be alert is with robbers (and not in all districts) but unfortunately it has grown up in the last years mainly because of the "new migrants" with new robbers and mafias.
So take more care of what you post, maybe you thought that here in Peru nobody speaks english or that it could be very difficult for us to found this videos... who knows, so please try to say always the truth.
Yes, a Brain Blaze episode on Fujimori, let’s go!
Always the best… great analysis Thanks
Anyone else feel like Simon's beard is about to stage it's own coup?
So Boluarte was given the power that Castillo was impeached for trying to seize. Did i hear that right?
Politically, yes. Legally, not
Thanks Simon for the insight. Maybe do a video on the European dictatorship and their laundering of tax payers money through national debt, ecology, weapons, giant contruction projects, etc.....
The results of Peru's polititians is similar to the effects in Europe, poor health care, poor care for retiree's, failure of infrastructure, riots, deaths, etc....
Analyse our own doorstep please
Thanks!
Fujimori video please!
Christ, how can anything get done when everyone holding power or office is corrupt? How does it even get to this point?
This is the part that, IMO, Simon got wrong.
This goes all the way back to how the Spanish organized their colonial holdings.
It was too highly centralized.
It's not a coincidence that most of the English Colonial territories are now some of the most stable Democracies (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
Mainly because diplomatic immunity, despite the corruption the congressmen are very stupid and some don't even have a career title so in time the investigations about money laundry and tax evasion are revealed but will never be judged so it becomes a waiting game while trying to choose the better option, to just wait it out or to flee, the majority just wait it out and nothing gets done.
@@justinpaul3110 Peru is so centralized! Just to give an example like 1/3 of the population lives in the capital city!
@-Pam_Guti I've been dozens of times since 2003. I think things were getting less centralized in the early 2010's.
I haven't been since 2016 but from what family tells me, it's getting worse.
Love it!
Simon , you are endlessly worthwhile for calling attention to where future dictatorships are forming .
Thank you Simon for finally bringing attention to this.
My friend of many years is from Lima, Peru and lives there. It has been terrifying learning what is happening. He is afraid to leave his apartment, after having to spend basically 3 years indoors due to covid. They are massacring citizens and outlawing protests of any kind. The last few years have been so crazy with presidents coming in and out, massive corruption, and now actions of the military against civilians. Even without knowing the finer details of Peruvian politics, I see my friend in despair living in such a place when all he wants is a normal life like all of us do. Just wants to be able to go to work, support his family, have some fun, all without risk to his safety. It is extremely sad to see what this stuff does to everyday people who deserve to just live in peace and go about their business.
I have written to President Biden and my federal-level House members and Senators about what actions they could take regarding the US funding of the Peru military. There was a small faction of leftists and Dems in D.C. who were asking Biden to temporarily stop military funding to Peru until they stop human rights' violations and stop using the army against their own people. One of my Senators replied they had no desire to interfere. Biden sent some extraneous auto-reply. That was it. It's disgusting. It's not like I asked them to declare war, just cut off the money that is buying the ammunition being used on CIVILIANS.
Go google José Luis Soncco, more than half a thousand wounded police officers and multiple public and private buildings burned down should give you an idea who you are shilling for. A few weeks ago I had to see one of the officers who got wrecked by these "civilians", the woman could barely walk after receiving medic treatment, you people giving all these criminals protection is the reason why LATAM gets screwed over and over, your miserable self-righteousness and virtue signalling while living a comfortable life in the West is sickening.
As it always is, it's not about the civilians. Never is. USA doesn't want his hands in another conflict. If they would cut the money it might have even worse replication in Peru. Geopolitics is all about influence and never about the civilians. We are just collateral damage or a very useful propaganda piece at some times.
@@Rupertthefallen6598 the US also has a history of siding with dictators in South America.
Hola, soy de Perú.
Podrías confirmar con tu amigo si son "Policías" los que están matando civiles? O son los Venezolanos los que estan matando Limeños que no pagan protección?
Soy de Perú y no se de que hablan con respecto a matanzas selectivas por parte del Ejército? Incluso podria decir que un grupo de 6 soldados murieron ahogados huyendo a pedradas por culpa de una turba aimara.
Lo único que nos preocupa es la inseguridad ciudadana por parte de las mafias venezolanas "Tren de Aragua" por cobro de extorsiones y sicariato. Si tu amigo anda preocupado de su vida debe ser víctima de la delincuencia o ser algún paranoico que cree que el gobierno anda tras él.
This is the main problem of a Presidential system of government having a neutral head of state would solve some of these issues
But this presidential system seems somewhat lacking. USA also has presidential system and president has almost entire control over his/hers cabinet. But in Peru parliament can wipe the cabinet on a whim. So it's somewhat presidential but not strictly. Although looking at all this if Peru had presidential system like USA they would have been back to dictatorship in no time.
Our constitution says that we are a presidential system BUT our constitution has also, from the beginning, put strong checks and balances on the president through parliament. It is not that our presidents have recently become corrupt, what we are seeing is actually the result of those checks and balances. In the past, presidents were a little more than petty despots. The Peruvian system is a hibrid, a semi-presidential system, and I would even go so far as to say that it was born that way and is now moving towards a semi-parliamentary system. The Peruvians have not yet learned the art of "politics" and how to "use" the parliament, the whole coalition and political stability part is missing.
Yes. I'd like a history on Fujimori. Thank you!
I live in Peru. People were protesting like crazy. But then they were called the T word and murdered or put in jail forever. The military is quite strong and intense.
Great video! You should look in to and do an episode about Vladimiro Montesinos. He was the head of SIN, Peru’s national intelligence service during Fujimori’s rule. It’s a doozy, I promise you.
Yes please.
Please do an episode on Fujimori in Peru!
yes we want a separate video on Fujumori
Hi Danny would this be the proper channel to perhaps do something on the troubles? I remember when they happened and know the basics but as an american I just don't get it on the emotional level that someone who lives there would. Is it even explainable?
Peru? This sounds more like **BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP**
The behaviour of the Peruvian elite in controlling the movements of its elected leader is exactly why I'm frustrated with the idea of a "democracy" that is in reality only subject to the whims of the financiers of the political candidates... which is the reality in too many nations with elected governments, particularly in the Americas... where U.S.-based multinational corporations hold most of the real power.
I feel like I’ve heard of shining path and all that but nothing past the name I would be interested to learn more about that
At least there's no ambiguity when we the UK screwed ourselves.
It’s actually crazy how differently I perceive all those issues. Don’t get me wrong, the video is really good considering the reliable information available, but the really is a lot of political back-channeling only a resident can perceive. Peru isn’t a police state (it’s actually going through a crime crisis with which the government isn’t dealing) and it has a very robust democracy. A couple of correcting details would be that Vizcarra was about to be impeached after corruption scandals. Btw, he even closed Congress a year earlier. In the case of Merino, the two deceased protesters seem to have been merely a tragic incident, and Castillo was also being impeached due to corruption scandals. Finally, Keiko Fujimori, though seemingly corrupt, has been in prison for almost two years but it has been a “previsionary stay”. The trial itself hasn’t even begun. Fujimorismo is strong, but pretty much 55% of the political forces hate them and are in stark opposition to them, which ends up with stuff like Keiko being imprisoned for over a year without the trial even starting. With regards to the protests, I must add that they were indeed violent and that the government response only escalated due to sheer necessity. The political party Peru Libre is, to this day, infested by insurgents (to not use the stronger word) (they even have pictures with other insurgents of that famous group from the 70s) and these members really were incentivizing violence amongst the uneducated rural population. Oh and with regards to regional governments doing all they can while the central government retreats to Lima, that simply isn’t true. Regional governments are notorious for not executing their budgets.
Well I'm peruvian and peruvian resitent all my life, and it's impressive how difficult it is for Peruvians like me to understand that we do live in a police state, perhaps because since its foundation it has been one and we were born into it. Every year social leaders are murdered in Peru by the army, the police, or their criminal associates such as organized mafias. It never appears in the news, and if it does, they are called terrorists and the majority of Peruvians believe that their extrajudicial murders are part of a rule of law and not a police state, because in a rule of law we ALL share the same rights.
It is incredible how we deny the fact that our political and economic system is closely linked to drug trafficking, illegal mining, illegal logging, animal and human trafficking, and that this money enters the economy through banks and various formal companies.
It is incredible that we do not remember that Fujimori (the "hero" who defeated Sendero Luminoso) does not fall because of his proven links with drug trafficking but because of his links with the Colombian terrorist group FARC, to whom he sold weapons, and that his children are involved with the drug trafficker Juaquín Ramires and are owners of the LIMASA company, in whose warehouses were found, the first time, 100 kilos of cocaine and the second half a ton.
It is incredible that we do not see that the Attorney General dismissed the prosecutor who was investigating her sister for association with drug trafficking, that we do not remember the vladivideo of the famous businessman Dionisio Romero in the SIN room negotiating with Vladimiro Montesinos.
Anyway, when you are born and live your entire life in a sewer, you are no longer able to smell the shit.
Eso es exactamente lo que pensaba, también hay que tener en cuenta que bajo la cosmovisión de la mayoría de angloparlantes (que provienen en su mayoría de países occidentales desarrollados), el tipo de conflictos de corrupción, abuso de poder, conflictos de intereses es mucho mas complejo y mucho menos "by the book" (ósea como se supone que funcionaria en la practica), en otras palabras es mucho mas sucio y multidimensional. Por lo tanto, es mucho mas complicado de comprender. Pero lo que dices esta genial, concuerdo totalmente.
@@oscarfreyre7930 no, I disagree. If there really were an attempt to have a police state, the police wouldn’t be as poorly funded as it currently is. For most citizens, the biggest issue is insecurity (not enough police presence). If we’re talking about “social leaders” both you and I know they aren’t that and that most of their deceases happen in skirmishes with entirely lawful law enforcement. Fujimori’s government was undeniably corrupt but trying to shovel dirt over his children is simply naive. Keiko was imprisoned for over a year and the trial didn’t even start. There was Huge political will to have her in prison and she is currently free. That says something, or at the very least should make us be a bit more reserved with our accusations against her.
I believe we live in a very corrupt country but it definitely isn’t a police state. This country also has a huge problem with political extremism and violence (mainly originated from the far left which is, by nature, populist and attractive to the poorly educated). The “extrajudicial” stuff you mention, is in my opinion just you being a bit conspiranoic, as I believe it’s just the product of skirmishes between violent insurgents and lawful law enforcement. After all, attempting to take all of these insurgents to trial would end up in many military and police deaths. I believe the far left political movements are the cancer of this country but I also believe that their success in appealing to a large portion of the population has been enabled by the mismanagement of the state by both leftist and right wing governments. The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system. After all, a large portion of our population is uneducated enough to not perceive Pedro Castillo’s extreme lack of preparation not just for government but even for a job as primary teacher. I understand that a president doesn’t need to be an economist, just as a CEO doesn’t need to be a CFO, but the administrator of the organization (in this case the state) must have a decent understanding of the functioning parts.
@@fabriziogonzales9719 A police state does not mean that the police control the state, it does not have to be literal. A police state refers to a state that uses the police for POLITICAL control. In the case of Peru, precisely its use for political control prevents its use against crime. That is to say, precisely the high crime is evidence that the Peruvian state uses the police for political control and not for the fight against crime.
I am not smearing Fujimori's children because they are, but because they are smeared by themselves: his company LimaSA where the prosecutor's office found first 100 kilos and then 500 kilos of cocaine, his direct association with Joaquin Ramirez currently prosecuted for drug trafficking, the vote unanimous of its congressmen for the elimination of the domain extinction law, its links with Los Cuelloos Blanco and a long etcetera.
"The “extrajudicial” stuff you mention, is in my opinion just you being a bit conspiranoic" WHAT!!!!! This is true flat-earthering, this is true conspiracy theory. For God's sake, just look at the dozens of videos filmed by citizens where extrajudicial murders are clearly seen: when someone kills a human being without prior trial, legally it is called extrajudicial murder. Extrajudicial murders are not an opinion or speculation, you can literally find visual evidence of it if you just clear your mind and search on UA-cam. There they are, and those videos are what the IDL journalists used to create a documentary that has already won 2 international journalism awards. But of course, surely the earth is still flat.
"as I believe it's just the product of skirmishes between violent insurgents and lawful law enforcement." Watch the videos, just that. Of the 110 protests that took place at the beginning of this year, only 10% were violent. In the storming of the capitol in the USA the police did not kill anyone, in the very violent protests in Paris the police did not kill anyone, in the storming of the Brazilian congress the police did not kill anyone. That is called the rule of law. In Peru the police and the army killed 49 people (corroborated), that is called the police state. These are not opinions, they are data, facts.
"a large portion of our population is uneducated enough to not perceive Pedro Castillo's..." Yes, but the other portion of our population is so uneducated that it does not perceive that Fujimori, Lopez Aliaga, Luna Galvez, Acuña, etc. are very well prepared only to commit a crime. Just because one is bad does not mean that opposites are good.
"The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system." No, that is positive thinking, self-help, pure voluntarism, it is like saying that the problem is having problems. Just ask yourself why there is no good education? to understand that "The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system" is a wrong way of approaching the problem, because then the problem would not be education, but the causes of why there is no education. And the main cause of that is absolute corruption. Did you know that Peru is today the first exporter of cocaine hydrochloride in the world? Have you ever wondered why despite that there is no known cartel or godfather of the Peruvian mafia? It is because the Peruvian status quo is deeply associated with these mafias, it does not persecute them and therefore no one knows them, because it is impossible to be the first producer/seller of cocaine in the world without owning the largest cartels in the world.
Get informed, but not from news programs that think like you, get informed about all the opinions, and above all, read the sources. Base your opinion on evidence, if possible scientific evidence, not on intuition. Data.
Celebrated as a long overdue step in 🇹🇹
No sabes cómo me encantaría entenderte se nota q haces un buen análisis y ni siquiera te entiendo. Tamare como me gustaría saber inglés en esta situación.
K?
Tiene subtitulos en inglés, son autogenerados, pero los puedes traducir
Es un mal análsis, no te pierdes de mucho...
You know, when a dozen presidents (literally a dozen) have been ousted on charges of corruption, some of whom were taking steps to effect systemic change, how are you meant to break that cycle EXCEPT through dictatorship. I am not suggesting death camps, torturing of citizens, or anything of the like, but how else do you wipe the slate clean in a society and system of such entrenched corruption?
Such a person would need to be incorruptible and we have a big problem there. A second big problem is that we peruvians are very wary of potential dictators, after having endured Fujimori for a decade. Anyone even trying to imply that he thinks staying for longer to reform the country is bound to face a sea of people demanding his immediate dismissal. And we know what comes next, confrontations with the police, casualties and the international community claiming that the president is killing dissenters. Worst case scenario, goodbye international aid and hello restrictions.
Right now what Peru needs is stability. Not an stellar president that turns us into a first world country overnight but someone who just does his job and leaves without major upheavals, fights against the congress or scandals of corruption. Which is almost impossible given how conflict prone our congress is. Be it PPK, Castillo or Boluarte it's always the congress which start impeachment processes utilizing the very ambiguous idea of "moral incapacity" that they've made a big effort to not define.
Good video. Just to add a bit more info, because it would make a hole different video to talk about it: 3.09 Fujimori wasn't forced to flee the country, he ran away after a series of videos showed him and his asesor, Vladimiro Montesinos, in huge bribes. And then he presented his resignation, via fax, from Japan.
What do you think being forced to flee the country is...?
wow i would like to learn more!
Gr8 presentation of todays political sphere. I wosh youd liok at Peruvian history and see the previous details that led us to this day 😢