Has anyone in this bitch ever visted Peru?

I love how even Peruvian Tories somehow look like they went to Durham pic.twitter.com/GsQbD6vL0j

— Ghostface Kafka (36 Chambers) (@TheKafkaDude) June 11, 2021

I wrote about the Peruvian elections, about a country stuck in limbo for days following accusations of fraud and about racism. Gracias @contracultural y @ramosdesal! https://t.co/SJb8P4V9IN

— Valeria CK (@valeria_wants) June 16, 2021

it's pretty bad

yeah I'm not happy abt the situation

Castillo has been proclaimed president 43 days after election day!! Here's a second story I wrote about what happened during that strange period: https://t.co/OjFrq0QJ0O

— Valeria CK (@valeria_wants) July 20, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/castillo-set-to-become-peru-president-as-rival-fujimori-says-she-will-recognise-result

Castillo has pledged to redraft the constitution and raise taxes on mining firms, but has in recent weeks softened his rhetoric and hinted at a more moderate, market-friendly approach.

hmmm

Well this sounds a lot like if Corbyn made it to PM.

"Even if Castillo is elected, Toledo is convinced Peru is “much more likely to face ungovernability than communism.” He would face strong opposition in Congress, from the country’s elite and the media. And while Castillo “will need to figure out how to last a year,” Peruvians will have to figure how to live with each other. As Toledo says: “we are getting to the bicentenary without having found a single thing that Peruvians… could have in common.”"

Britain’s liberal broadsheet, ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/XfUWSd3OHP

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) July 30, 2021

oh yah, my capitalist Peruvian friend is super pissed rn

Peru itself as independent state turned 200 on Wednesday, so quite a marker!

is Fujimori going to prison now?

castillo isnt really a "marxist". bit of a sui generis, for northern hemisphere observers, populist socialist, social conservative, peruvian nationalist (from an agrarian and indigenous/mestizo lens).

in his first speech as president he said that young people not employed or studying should do military service. i do think we might have a bit of a mad-lad on our hands. hopefully he doesn't start saber-rattling with chile.

Yeah that guardian headline is just libs. He is no commie but it'll be interesting to see what he does, or the ppl he brings along do.

Good interview

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/pedro-castillo-offers-a-chance-for-peru-to-break-with-its-neoliberal-history

Of course there would be a UK Labour MP decrying this election as no choice at all and inaccurately as "a country going down the failed marxist route" who likely wouldn't have had anything to say on the matter if the country was under the control of a fascistic crime dynasty.