“Pedro Castillo emerged from that deep, excluded, and marginalized Peru that has been the primordial object of nefarious consequences of treason by the elites,” according to an observer.  Castillo was the first progressive candidate ever to win a presidential election in Peru. After harassing him for months, Peru’s rightwing-dominated unicameral Congress recently ordered Castillo’s removal More

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