The arrest and deposition of Peru’s most recent elected President, Pedro Castillo, is only the latest chapter in a long political crisis going back about almost a decade. Its content is the increasing assertion of popular power against that of a small propertied elite. This assertion has been met with a combination of force and fraud. However, they have clearly not succeeded in supressing the masses. As their protests continue, this panel, including speakers from Castillo’s government, reflect on the crisis, its long historical roots, possible outcomes and the factors that will determine them.
Speakers
Anahí Durand Guevara is a Sociologist, a professor at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Ph. D in Political and Social Sciences, Former Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations of Peru.
Héctor Béjar is a Peruvian author, University professor, activist, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru.
Eliana Carlín Ronquillo is a political scientist at the Universidad del Pacifico (Lima), co-author of "Twenty Peruvian Heroines" and co-founder of the activist groups "NO to Keiko" and "Heroinas Peruanas".
Benjamin Norton is the founder and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report, an independent news website dedicated to publishing original journalism and analysis.
Ollie Vargas is a Bolivia-based reporter and co-founder of Kawsachun News. Other works by him can be found on Mintpress News, The Grayzone, teleSUR English, and Radio Kawsachun Coca.
Moderator - Francisco Dominguez is head of the Research Group on Latin America at Middlesex University. He is also the national secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and co-author of Right-Wing Politics in the New Latin America (Zed, 2011).
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