Peru’s New President Is On Team Riot

You may remember from all of nine days ago how lefty Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was removed from power after attempting his own autogolpe. Did that solve the political crisis?

Eh, not so much.

Turns out that his successor, Dina Boluarte, is also Marxist, and just like #BlackLivesMatter Democrats, doesn’t believe in letting police prevent rioters from burning shit down.

Castillo, elected in 2021, was ousted by parliament last week after he tried to dissolve the legislature and stage a coup. This led to the ascension of his vice president, Dina Boluarte, also a Marxist, as president.

Alarmingly, she has come out against even using rubber bullets to stop the mobs torching buildings and disrupting Peru from Lima to Machu Picchu. According to the New York Times, Boluarte has called on the minister of interior to identify the policemen “who have used these weapons that are harming our sisters and brothers.”

These “brothers and sisters,” members of “indigenous” groups, unions, and other leftist activists, are instigated from outside through social media accounts based in the U.S., Argentina, Bolivia, and Mexico and include pro-China, pro-Russia, and pro-Iran activists. Some were also involved with our own Black Lives Matter summer of violence.

Joseph Humire of the Center for a Secure Free Society, one of the best analysts in the U.S. following this sort of online activity, gave me a rundown of those pushing on social media the disinformation narrative that Castillo was ousted because of racism against his Indian roots. They include former Bolivian President Evo Morales, Cristina Kirchner, the recently indicted vice president of Argentina, and Gustavo Petro and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Marxist presidents of Colombia and Mexico, respectively.

Similarly, Douglas Farah, who also conducts investigations on illicit networks, has found that the vast majority of the millions of tweets about the riots that broke out in Chile came from Venezuela and its allies, Cuba and Nicaragua, while most anti-riot tweets were Chilean. This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Venezuela’s regime has vowed that it will use its oil money to sow this type of chaos throughout the Americas.

Humire alerted me to influencers such as the pro-Russia activist Daniel Estulin, who actually brags in a video from Mexico that he is helping instigate the riots in Peru. Humire also reminded me that Andahuaylas, rocked by violent protests this week, is within the same region (Apurimac) where Iran has developed an indigenous network.

I would take the Iran charge with a grain of salt, since the Andes are not a region where disgruntled Shia provide an opportunity for Iran to create networks of followers. Plus I think the mullahs have other things on their mind right now.

The basic ingredients for stable prosperity are capitalism, democracy and the rule of law. Because all those limit Marxist Will to Power, leftwing rulers (in South America and elsewhere) seem to constantly be at war with all three.

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3 Responses to “Peru’s New President Is On Team Riot”

  1. 370H55V I/me/mine says:

    Where’s Lori Berenson when we need her?

  2. Kirk says:

    South America will never, ever be stable and able to achieve its potential so long as the cultural legacy of the Spanish Empire remains a significant part of the culture. Not to mention, the inheritance of the Inca and the Moors who ran Spain into the ground.

    There’s a lot of influence from the days when the Islamists ran Spain and Portugal, not to mention the various other invading cultures that came in. Spain’s legacy ain’t what I’d term even vaguely egalitarian and decentralized. Which is why they were so prone to centralization and corruption.

    Decentralized, power-down colonization does better, over the long haul. Had the various Northern Europeans been the ones to “get” South America, and Spain everything north of the Rio Grande? The economic positions would be entirely reversed, today.

    It’s significant that if one had been asked to pick out which set of colonies would be the more successful at the end of the 18th Century, nobody in their right mind would have picked out the 13 on the Atlantic seaboard. The Spanish colonies in Central and South America had all the advantages, back then, and should have become the regional powers. They didn’t, and that’s down entirely to Spanish culture and what they did down there.

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