Peruvian lawmakers have voted to oust President Pedro Castillo after he tried to dissolve the country’s Congress and install an emergency government. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez has the latest, including how Castillo has been placed under arrest for violating the Constitution.
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Seriously people comparing the Peruvian politics vs the U.S or other bigger countries in the region? If they really defend democracy they should start by not being so corrupt!!
Sounds to me that if every President in the last 40 years has been charged with corruption the problem isn’t the President it’s the government that’s corrupt. The President knew that and tried to install a new government and now they’ve turn on him making him out to be the corrupt one.
Dictatorship avoided! Congratulations people of Peru! America came close with the last president when he stared giving his friends, loyalists and family members jobs. Had his daughter as his advisor, son in law a government employee to help him make money with foreign companies & governments etc. Phew!
Soros is not happy
Trump Peruvian cousin
Bidens next ⏱️👁️🍿☠️💪🏽
NBC will not dare to mention he is a liberal.
I’m assuming the vice president doesn’t want to dissolve congress too?
Man…democracy truly is stronger than dictatorship. America proved it last election, now Peru.
Lol…. Now where have I heard that before ……. Oh Joe, Oh Joe…. Can u say .. coming to a Biden near you real soon!!!!!!!!
It’s saddens me that Latin America is one of the most corrupt continents in the world. We’ve seen Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and recently Brazil and Colombia fall for the lies of socialism. Props to Peru for stopping the rise of another dictatorship.
Woooowwww. Good for them. Wish they could have done that with the orange devil!!!!
Sounds like a Peruvian Trump 🤣🤣🤣
Please Elon buy NBC and bury it
He’s like the Donald Trump of Peru
I find it so funny you guys allow these populations that are teaming with revolutionaries to just come into our country and you’re going to expect them to be a voting block for you but something tells me that that’s not going to last very long. And they are going to turn on you as revolutionaries. And then you’re going to turn to us the right wingers that you called racist for the last 10 years you know what we’re going to do even though we love our country we’re going to start a war with you and them and then we’re going to take our country back. might want to call the UN now.
where we gonna fight a civil war? cheesecake factory? lmao
@Gay Comedy Fan no you’ll be over in the corner acting like a woman and then once you guys get ran through they’re going to call in the UN as you can tell they’re already bringing in people from the third world to fight your war for you cuz you have no testosterone.
Will it spread to other countries?
He was just taking trumps advice 😐
I support Castillo
Sounds familiar doesn’t it?!!! 😈🤬
Se acaban de convertir de nuevo en colonia de los usa por medio de sus corporaciones. Cuando abriremos los ojos?
Imagine how strong Latin American countries would be without U.S. interference.
May this women treat the Peru people better then they were before❤️
LMAO..Really? She is on the take herself and that’s why she backed congress to remove the man who tried to stop them
Peruvian*
Sorry just a dumb American here😂
Good intentions – Peru is watching the new President she also has charges for corruption – but at least much less than Castillo. Lets hope she turns to be OK
Slava to all not just ukrain people, And no more ukrain! the nato and european mafia will control ukrain now, they feed you garbage democracy garbage and your ukranian men are fighting for the decievers that fed your people with democracy garbage, good bey to ukrain, you idiots got fooled and now its in control off the shaitan, but you dont see it because no education and all you want is some food and water, you loosers
We need one of those here!!!
Sound like Trump.
It’s uncanny.
All despots always forget he’s one man!!! Power to the ppl
Hahahahaha…..the reporter thinks Peru has the same Constitution as the USA.
He was trying to learn from Donald Trump..
So another fake news president trying to stay in power
isn’t this what trump did?
When NBC says anything i know the opposite is actually true.
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
Many people do not know it, but most Peruvian presidents have come from the side of the left even the military who gave coups d’état had that same ideology (communist-socialist), however the irony is that with their demagogic programs of giving away money (bonds or subsidies) they destroy the economy, scare foreign investors and in the end blame the right for everything. Since the year 2,000 in Peru the left (one of its variants, which we call “caviar”, are leftist, speak as “socialist” defenders, they come from an affluent social class, but they are tremendously corrupt, they work for the government with good salaries, for example as advisors or creating NGOs to obtain money. The left worldwide does not know how to make money because their DNA is not entrepreneurial or business, but they love money and having it and managing it. The vice president who has just been sworn in as president, has had serious questions, is from the radical left and has supported Castillo for a long time. Now the “caviars” will want to fill the power gaps and perpetuate themselves again. This does not end yet, it is only the beginning of the other side of the left.
Good
Theres more than one corrupt politician over there lol
This is why they like to keep us divided so we don’t come against the leaders
Almost exactly what Donald Trump attempted in the United States, and still attempting
So this was a legal takeover of the government? What they aren’t telling you is congress was doing illegal stuff and that’s why their president tried to remove them. There must of been a lot of money tossed around to get the police and others to back this
This happened at the same time Germany had a coup 🤔
Attempted …no they put the MAGA right wing down in Germany they do not mess around
How many totalitarians are there right now?
For this who don’t know: It’s great that he got impeached because he was a corrupted leader who got there under false premises. He’s not a true leftist. However, in order to get rid of the corruption we need to remove most of the people in congress. Most are unqualified and also have corruption accusations.
Very fishy
Never good when a woman takes over
I seen this before (Bolivia) lol another coup sponsored by United States to steal Peru Lithium and bring “democracy” by putting a non elected president lmao classic american moment
They’ve got some weird governments in South America. Dissolve congress?!
Which means the president Was correct and people were meddling
Wow what a joke. I guarantee this country is being influenced externally. Of course a woman is just given the presidency
The same should be done in most European countries and of causes in Canada (our 20th-century dictator MR.T). Say what you want but there is no democracy in these countries anymore. 🙁
I admire puru if congress in the US was not bunch of cowards or corrupt like republicans maybe trump would of being in jail by now
What about electing a normal guy that isn’t far left or far right?
Wow. Sounds like the former leader of the free world. Take note. This is what happens to bad leaders. The people unit.
Peace to all
America. Did the same with the thief in the white house
All would be dictators deserve Gaddafi’s fate
Gaddafi was a good man
These presidents are trying to be a wierd mix of crooked Mexicans and Donald Trumpf….
How long until that VP gets busted?
When was the last time a Peruvian president was able to complete a single term?
1990
The Peruvian government and Congress is completely controlled by the CIA, and is far right. The president is on the left, the real coup is by the Congress of Peru and the CIA.
Liberal MSNBC can’t even get that right.
Liberal is NOT left.
More corruption than Illinois Government
In the end he was a sorry excuse of a dictator, just as many people pointed he would be. And he did the same thing Fujimori did. Now, he’s in the same jail as Fujimori. Irony sometimes is truly poetic.
You’re telling me that when a sitting president plots to subvert the government they should be arrested? Hmm….
I bet my left nut that the new female president is just as corrupt as every former male president.
Theres something worse than a country with many politicians in prison, a country without none..
Este país debería aprender de que los corruptos como biden el hijo , la pelosi con el marido meterlos preso por corruption y sacarlos de los cargos , aprendan para poder cuidar este país
Their citizens may be illiterate but sure can tell Dictatorship from Freedom and stand againt it. Perhaps “developed” countries cam learn from such people.
Gringoooos, you’re invited to the great Christmas Party on 16th December in Los Olivos, Lima,Peru ,there will be chocolate, paneton, presents and what you like the most: guns , if Sideral ,the host, doesn’t appear .
Gaaaaaaaaaaa 🤪
trump wants to do similar things in the united states and many are blind to it
This is America what they do
They teach y’all well
The president’s name isn’t tRUMP is it? sounds like it’s taken right out of the US repugnikon playbook.
Another Soros backed pos bites the dust.
Go Peru America next
let me guess: popular leftist latin american president tries to clean up corrupt legislature, u.s. deep state backs his removal
YOU LIKE TO MEDDLE IN OTHER COUNTRYS WELL GET READY FOR THE MASSIVE MIGRATION 😂
They should have done this to trump twice
As a Peruvian native, it makes me sad but I am no longer appealed or shocked. My generation was born during Sendero Luminoso, and has seen the last 7 or 8 presidents either flee, commit suicide or go to jail for corruption and other crimes. Always in economic and social instability caused honest people like my father to migrate elsewhere and raise us in the land of promise for a better future. Peruvians say that Peru is a poor man sitting in a golden throne of riches—and it’s true. The country is so rich in natural resources…it lacks leadership and democratic infrastructure at its core. As a US citizen now, I am forever grateful for the constitution and for this great land. It brought us much opportunity and we respect it. USA has-ONE- constitution which brings stability to the nation even in its darkest hours. It has balance of power and it has remained unchanged since 1787. Peru, however, has constitution drafted every 3-5 years it seems and it always favors the current ruler OR the party/people of majority in the senate. I’m sad for Peru, but blessed to be an American. May god bless it, forever. My home🇺🇸❤
Same. I was born in Peru and am a U.S. citizen now.
Let’s translate the US Constitution and email it to the new Peruvian president.
@Magnus Fox I went to a museum in Lima once and there was an exhibition on Peruvian democracy and I asked the exhibition guide that happened to be a university student if he could teach me more about Peruvian democracy starting with the constitution and he simply said it was drafted after the French constitution and when I pushed further but politely he didn’t know how to expand further. This was a college student from San Marcos y think, which is suppose to be the top university in the nation. I too wish we could create ONE constitution drafted in the manner of America’s constitution. I once thought of running for president….but I think I would loose my head and probably get ousted or killed by the Congress or the lawyers for trying to change their corrupt system which they clearly don’t want to change. That is why no honest leader last more than a short term of transition in Peru.
Now the ethno patriots gonna win the next elections, the imperial blood will ve revindicated!
New elections
The US telling another country to allow democratic institutions to function doesn’t pass the laugh test.
What about is all the corruption is in Congress and that the reason they don’t want him and now nobody going to know about the corruption,the need to be in court to see what happening,people elect castillo, there vote counts.
you fill in the blank, Peru is less 🍌republic than _________? If _____ ______ would have his way.
This women ist not the president .no peruano vote for Her !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And she its also a corrupt
AlMOST ALL MEDIA IN MY COUNTRY PERÚ HAS BEEN PURCHESED BY LIMA CAPITAL CITIZENS WHO HANDLE HUGE QUANTITIES OF MONEY POWER.
The Peruvian elites have been pushing to impeach him from the beginning, without reason. Same as Marjorie Greene Taylor pushing to impeach Biden on baseless reasoning.
Castillo here was pushing to reform the Peruvian Congress, to make it more inline with the improvement of the lives of ordinary people, but sellouts and the rich fought a campaign to remove him from power and used his last effort to remove him from power and protect their positions and wealth.
In 1993, in Russia, Boris Yeltsin tried the exact same thing as Castillo did and succeeded. Now look at where that has gotten not just Russia but also Russia’s neighbors and the rest of the world.
So kudos to Peru for having the guts to do what it takes to avoid Russia’s fate.
So the American controlled RIGHT Wing (military old boys club) of Peru has been purchased with part of the stolen 21 trillion dollars from american civilian tax funds (by pentagon) to specifically create a solid social beachhead in Peru to ensure the continued THEFT of Peruvian resources. Castillo was just ill suited and not properly backed and in a position of weakness even tho he initially represented the indiginous people of Peru. Civilians seem to be incapable of recognizing the malevolent nature of all militaries world wide as mere mercenaries. Civies walk into a cage with a predator and expect that predator to have some form of honor when what they do takes no honor at all. How lucky for Peru that American Bad Faith Actors own the right wing of Peru power. No doubt Hillary Clinton is behidn getting teh first “female” into peru government while the people of peru get an insurgent and a beachhead to further the molestation of peru .
Desperate attempt to dissolve the congress is a script sent directly by the Cuban communist regime…
SOS i SOS SOS International help the real coup plotters, massacring and SILENCING the Peruvian people as in the 90’s x FUJIMORI we demand immediate resignation of the TRAITOR congressmen WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE the USURPER wing, Lima besieged. Release of the Peruvian President and his Family. Coup plotters WILL ALL BE PROSECUTED, MILITARY WITH THE RIGHT COERCED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF PERU THE POWER INSIGHT ……
Get used to this. You’re going to see a lot more of it in more countries in the coming years.
You’re not gonna win the boog lol
@Falbert Bruh, we got winters with no fuel for warmth and global food shortages around the corner. 9/10 coups can fail and we’ll still see some get through just throw pure numbers.
Where did he learn this B.S. , from AGENT ORANGE?
Trump supporter extremists think this is about to happen in the US. Lol
All this is happening because the united states wants their lithium. Don’t believe the information they feed you through conventional media.
Guatemala 🇬🇹, Cuba 🇨🇺, Haiti 🇭🇹, Nicaragua 🇳🇮, Peru 🇵🇪, Argentina 🇦🇷 Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Bolivia 🇧🇴 Mexico 🇲🇽 and USA 🇺🇸 are corrupt countries..
America…. You see how this works 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
This coup attempt was paid for by the RNC most likely
See America, this is what you do to traitorous ex presidents, you lock them up!
The message is simple….
Corruption is part of the system, old expression “the statue remains, only the head changes”….
Trump is salivating now.
Good riddance the DICTATOR has been ousted
Some type of coup d’état the US supports this is nothing new US been supporting this all around the world, they failed to overthrow Venezuela and Cuba, if there gonna be a coup how about coup the corrupt Haitian government the people who been protesting nonstop in the streets for freedom.
There is more to this story ..
The victim here is President Castillo, he has immunity and the corrupt Congress in cahoots with the police have taken his rights away. He’s been held captive since Dec.7th. The people want him out and to be reinstated. The people want congress to be shut down. The people want a new constitution.
Already the government have killed three people because they protested and the oppression and killing will continue until Dina boluarte, the usurper resigns.
This comment section just shows how clueless westerners are about what goes on in latin American countries. President Castillo was elected precisely because he promised to dissolve the Constitution, because the current constitution of Peru was written by a right wing dictator in such a way as to make any reforms that would help the people, impossible. The congress is run by a rich, right wing, elite who hang over Castillo like a cloud and anytime he even tried to pass any reforms, they’d get shut down and he would be threatened with impeachment. They called a vote for him twice in seven months. In the current constitution, there’s no way Castillo or anyone who wants to threaten the neoliberal hegemony, could do anything to help the people out of their imposed poverty.
What a Moron 🤦♂️