In Peru local and foreign oligarchs loot natural assets
of the country: AMLO
Nestor Jimenez and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday February 28, 2023, p. 17
The situation in Peru, basically it is a oligarchy
both a national of that country, but above all a foreigner, who It is plundering natural resources: gas, mining resources. And they need to have a puppet, a puppet, a model ruler, and a Congress too, as we suffered here for more than 30 years.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said yesterday.
During his morning press conference, the head of the federal Executive was asked about his position regarding the withdrawal of the Peruvian ambassador to Mexico, Manuel Gerardo Talavera, announced by President Dina Boluarte.
Without detailing the diplomatic measures contemplated by his administration, nor the status in which relations between the two nations are maintained, López Obrador endorsed his criticism of the dismissal and imprisonment of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo.
“We do not accept all the farce that the removal of President Pedro Castillo has meant, because the will of the people of Peru was not respected, democracy was trampled on and a great injustice was committed by removing and imprisoning him, and then establishing de facto an authoritarian, repressive government, and we do not agree with that,” he insisted.
In addition, he announced that he will continue to express himself on this topic: so, annoying, unworthy, it is a great injustice, one cannot remain silent, and we will continue to do so
.
Reproaching that there are those who shout like town criers when it suits them, and at other times remain silent like mummies, he stressed that it bothers a lot that everyone is silent
. In this context he referred to the world press, the most famous newspapers in the world
the OAS, the United Nations and human rights organizations; no one talks about that great injustice
.
The man from Tabasco compared the case of Peru with the structural reforms in the period neoliberal
in Mexico, endorsed, he stated, for deliver the country’s goods to national and foreign companies
. It is something similar to what is happening in Peru, she reiterated.
A week ago, López Obrador described the dismissal of Castillo as a technical coup
as well as an act illegal, arbitrary, undemocratic
in addition to announcing that he does not wish to hand over the presidency of the Pacific Alliance to the Boluarte government, which he considered spurious
nor seek legitimize a coup
so it will consult with the rest of the Alliance nations how it will proceed.
Meanwhile, last Thursday he received Lilia Paredes, Castillo’s wife, at the National Palace. Since December, Paredes and her children arrived in Mexico after receiving asylum.
