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Posted by5 hours ago

Peru's President Pedro Castillo says he will dissolve congress, hours before impeachment vote

cnn.com/2022/1...

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· 4 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago

A Peruvian redditor commented on another post. It seems this guy is alone and no one wants him. Congress voted to impeach him, regardless of his little coup attempt, and the military isn’t on his side either.

Edit: he’s been detained by police

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· 4 hr. ago

the military isn’t on his side either.

That's how you know he's going to fail on his coup attempt.

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· 3 hr. ago

Peruvian here. He was impeached while fleeing and his own security led him to the police to detain him. He is done for. Short-lived coup attempt.

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· 3 hr. ago

Love that edit ✍️

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· 4 hr. ago

And this is why checks and balances exist.

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· 3 hr. ago

This is why Peru's state run oil company is being influenced by big oil.

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· 4 hr. ago

What do bank papers and weight scales have to do with this?

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· 5 hr. ago

That doesn't sound corrupt at all.

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· 3 hr. ago

Very legal and very cool.

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· 3 hr. ago

Perú constitution allows the president to dissolve the congress. But I have no idea under what circunstances. Fujimori (former president during the 1990s) did the same.

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· 5 hr. ago

People are gonna needlessly die, yet again, all for a fucking ego.

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· 2 hr. ago

He’s been detained by police.

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· 4 hr. ago

I’m sure money is involved too. People will eat their children for a few bucks.

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· 4 hr. ago

Maybe he feels bad about the size of his plátano.

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· 53 min. ago

Nah, looks like he utterly failed to seize power and has been arrested. Bet they'll charge him for trying though.

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· 1 hr. ago

Never underestimate the power of the individual ego to guide development; Caesar conquered the Gaul and thus created the French entirely for his own ego, Alexander wanted to conquer up until the end of the Earth for his own ego.

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