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[deleted] t1_j3sf2xw wrote

Reply to comment by johndoe30x1 in Peru protests: 17 dead in fresh clashes as calls grow for President Boluarte to resign | Peru by Generic-Commie

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Funny_Equivalent t1_j3u1e4r wrote

This is a lot more complex than the Americans in this sub think it is. While it makes sense to compare what happened in Brazil to what happening in the US, the comparison fails with Peru. This is bigger than Castillo and not everyone protesting even like him, although the idea of him was definitely a powerful one in the south.

This has centuries of racism and classism behind it and a country with a capital that thinks the brown poor people from the south who are protesting are either savages or manipulated idiots and they’re happy seeing them be killed by the police.

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johndoe30x1 t1_j3slgwt wrote

So I should be on the side of the government that successfully counter-couped the President and is now killing unarmed protestors? No thanks.

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[deleted] t1_j3t81ht wrote

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johndoe30x1 t1_j3tcqno wrote

By that reasoning, Castillo never attempted a coup either, since he did have the emergency power to dismiss congress. Congress did not remove him through the normal impeachment process (which had already failed twice)

e: I think a better comparison would be Yeltsin. But Yeltsin of course didn’t go to prison, because he used tanks and soldiers to attack parliament and won

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