Pace of politics in more "prominent" nations might be slow, but even a glacial pace can have more immense impact. When each step takes you exponentially quicker toward to abyss, one shouldn't sleep on changes happening in nations who actually have military budgets greater than some nations' entire GDP.

@schemage2210 The US won’t be turning into a dictatorship any time soon, regardless of what the media tells you. Trump or Biden, it doesn’t matter.

Better to have a boring politics, than to have populist clowns in power.

@@HShango Amen.. Just ask the UK during BoJo.. I know that's far from what Peru's going through but in terms of Europe, the UK under BoJo was a bad circus.

@@0Zero_ Our current PM was the one who pushed eat out to help out, during the pandemic. Thanks to him everybody in the restaurant I was working at got covid after we had to deal with 3x the amount of customers due to this stupid plan. I now have chronic pain after recovering. I will never forgive Boris Johnson and Rishy Sunak for the damage they've caused because of ignorance

Indeed! The constitution from his dictatorship is literally still in power, so to understand it a deeper understanding of Fujimari is needed.

it's not that it's needed, it benefits pretty much the people in power and they will never do anything to minimize the power they hold

Fujimori would make a great Biographics. The Japanese Embassy fiasco, The Shining Path, resigns by fax from Japan and then returns? A 'different flavour of crazy' indeed.

Peruvian here 🙂 My mom told me the other day "the reason why Peru doesn't have a drug cartel problem, is because of Fujimori, because of him the government is the drug cartel". He was responsible for many disappearances, killings, and the forced sterilizations of more than 300,000 Peruvians (the majority impoverished or indigenous women). He fled the country and resigned by fax, later on he claimed Japanese nationality and try to get elected to the Japanese congress.

@@-Pam_Guti I'm not an expert on your country's history, but I guess that brought some benefits from a sinister point of view. Instead of having a cartel war like Mexico you have state sponsored violence and the illusion of safety for a while. The problem is, you can be the victim of political prosecution. But now it seems the system has devolved totally into a terror state.

Cause Peru politics isn't that complex.

😢😢 true

Not true. The corrupt is Castillo. Peru is still following the constitution and putting all corrupt presidents in jail. That doesn't happen even in the US

Others write the scripts for him.

I'm personally proud of my Peruvian neighbors' strong institutions. In basically any other country, this level of corruption would mean total lack of accountability, but in Peru, despite the total and irredimable corruption of the whole political class and all individual actors, the democratic institutions remain standing and the actual presidents get locked up for their crimes. I don't think I have ever heard of more robust institutions than that. Saludos desde Chile.

I’m from Cuba and I completely agree. Living in the USA now and watching idiots on the street chanting in favor of socialism and communism is insane to me🤦‍♂️

​@@eddyram4932Personally, I think it's crazy that people are incapable of differentiating between single-payer healthcare and hereditary authoritarian communism. I've never heard someone seriously advocate for any genuine communism, yet the entire conservative movement in this country wields 1970s Red Scare shit as a reason to not address our absolutely rotten, corrupt healthcare system.

Literally insane. If only a measured, leisurely progressive / reformed capitalism had the same appeal, it may well be achieved.

Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta poor. It is what it is.

@@Novastar.SaberCombat It is more complex than that. Goods produced cheaply by machine and improved transport (Industrial Revolution, along with capitalism) raised the standard of living for millions. Prior to the Industrial Revolution rural poverty was rampant. However the transition to mechanized farming allowed people to leave the countryside. The "middle-road" of a social welfare state has insured more equitable access to education The welfare state has raised the standard of living for people that would have been a pipe dream of pre-WW1 people. But the welfare state requires more people contributing to the common pot; rather than draining it.

🎯 🎯🎯🎯

Well, you could say that until maybe 2020. Now the Congress-Executive alliance has concentrated as much power as to control Public Attorney's Office, Constitutional Court, Ombudsman's Office and more

Ahhh, Venezuela is by now a failed state ....

It's been a dictatorship since Chavez took over😂 Can't turn into something you have been for 2 decades.

Too many Latinos?

Oh Gawd No Please All they do is turn w/e country they migrate to into the country they fled. Rapefugees

That is a sad commentary on the country.

Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

Peru is even attracting migration from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Vietnam, Malaysia. Our biggest problem is that the Venezuelan Dictatorship is sending terrorists, who organize themselves into criminal gangs, such as "Tren de Aragua" to torment the Peruvian population. And the United States Government is making deals with the inhumane Dictatorship of Venezuela. Harming a Democracy like Peru. Peru is so bad that we have the lowest inflation on the continent. We are not enslaving our population with 70% taxes like in Argentina. We are not putting our citizens in prison for buying or selling dollars like in Bolivia or Argentina. We are not doing business with the Putin Dictator in Russia, nor with the Iran\Hamas terrorists, as many of the Latin countries do.

Man, I am really bummed to not be able to find an audiobook of this

@@SphenForTheWin try reading.

@@Jhunta Oh trust, I do. But cancer limits my eyes' stamina these years.

@@SphenForTheWin oh. srry to hear brother. glad to know you're still living to your fullest, despite your challenges. keep at it, brother and God bless.

Even with all his flaws, he was a necessary evil because central bank and the inflation from former president García

Corrupción hay en todos lados, lol, lo que nunca hubo fue personas que al menos tengan la decencia de robar solo de los ingresos que el mismo país produzca, y no venderse a la corrupción internacional o a las potencias

And there is no corruption in the USA?😉🤔🤣

Peru is in America 🤷‍♂️

@@Shadow__133 es gringo, llama América a usa, es normal, no tienen como llamarse

Lol if your parents are from Peru you were already American.....

All thanks to our ministry of economy

@@TomLostWave all thanks to Belarde.

@@issaelynuma9001 the start of all this BS, as we say here "El Perú es un mendigo sentado en un banco de oro"

@@issaelynuma9001Velarde

Peru is a strange case of a country where all the people in power are garbage, but the actual institutions are strong. The fact that Peru remains a functioning democracy through all this corruption is incredible.

Agreed! Loved Lima, Machu Picchu and even Huacachina. Peru has the strangest landscapes and awesome people!

I'm from Peru, don't believe everything you watch at youtube

Bro rlly named cool to the 5% of Lima at max ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I’m Peruvian and I can tell you the vast majority are racists, classists, against their own felling citizens.

@@luisdiaz-cz5gk indeed!

A helicopter has a lot more possibility that "an accident" happens and he's dead. Just look at rwandas former president.

he was caught because the people that work around him leaked him talking about asking for mexico taking him as political refugee . when he go to the embassy of mexico police was wainting . not only was for the traffic . probably police was alerted the instant that he left the building , maybe his family leak also . remember that his family flee at the same time but they could travel because they werent never under arrest or something . just castillo

@@terranox17 thanks for the additional data points. In this case, he definitely should have used a helicopter!

"You can run away from the Police, the military and the people, but you cannot run from Lima's traffic"

I live in Perú, for i know his driver take him to justice.

So what you are telling me is that I should not visit Peru? Not because of the civilians who are probably incredible people, but because of the corrupt police and politicians.

@@troybaxter I would still recommend Peru as a must visit country, it really is an amazing place.

@@naebodyknows7016 it sounds amazing. You know, I am just concerned about corrupt politicians and police screwing over a tourist for no real reason other than to extort money out of me.

Cops in Ottawa, Canada, did that to me. Not a bag of weed, a supposed traffic violation.

Mate, how lucky of you, most people just come to Peru to take photos with the mountains and try food, but you as a foreign got to live the real National experience right there! Not every foreign guy manages to get that one because our policemen are sometimes more racist than interested assholes, and they prefer to screw the local unwhite unrich people of the country... But seriously, i'm sorry you had to go through that, and as i weirdly tried to imply before, that isn't the common experience of tourists i've met so far, so y'all don't need to fear that one since it's an exception... On sexual harrassment on the other hand...

There's already an episode covering this

the same dudes been in power here in Peru for 200 years

@@richa510acomplejado 😊

La misma respuesta vacia de la misma gente

@@richa510 el mismo reclamo de la misma gente.

@@blueunicorn8665 cuando haces los cambios pacificos imposibles habilitas que sucedan violentamente, y no lo digo yo, lo dijo un Kennedy, pero como la gente no entiende desde sus posiciones de comodidad esa violencia es ciclica

She's trying to show she has the respect and validation from other presidents (she doesn't), my friend who works at El Comercio told me, she just went on a holiday around the world with our taxes, no plan, no schedule or arranged meetings

All I knew about him was the hostage crisis and that he took a lot of cash and bolted to Japan.

I believe "Democratically elected semi-authoritarian head of state" may suit him better than "dictator". Usually countries with this style of government fall in the category of a "Hybrid regime", where the people still get to elect their government in a fixed electoral term, but the elected authority regularly abuses its power.

Fujimori was as much of a dictator as now Salvadorian president Bukele. While the dictator is getting good results, pulling the country out of the shitter, no one wants to call him a dictator.

He basically did the self-coup maneuver. As it was one of the first if not the first doing that in Latin America, people were always looking for where another "Fujimorazo" could happen.

Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

I've lived in Peru my whole life, (I'm Peruvian) and the problem never were the rich or thw wealthy, in what goverments, the state have risen taxes? Like the IGV (GENERAL TAX TO SALES)? Wasn't Antauro Humala? A socialist, every single time socialism reached power Perú gets worst, but please, even those that call themselves capitalist are no other thing than hypocrites. Yes those that are wealthy prevail, because they found succes either by luck, knowledge or hardwork they have earned their pennies, those that are poor, is because the state bills 18% in taxes is 10% more than you will ever pay in the US and I live in NewYork state... the problem will never be those that by hard work or luck had found success, if that is a sin, then may God judge us all and send us to hell.

​@@kevindelgado2982los malos son los resentidos. Si se largaran los caviares el Perú se volvería una potencia mundial

The left is the problem, I’ve just brought my parents over from 🇵🇪 Peru because of the disaster that was Castillo and the blowback from his presidency. The uneducated, and if you live there you know they are uneducated, continue to push things to the left. The left has Ben a scourge on Latin American politics that keeps holding back progress in addition to corruption.

CÍA and US military power have not been used in such way in ye rest of the Americas since the Clinton administration. Only exception has been military support for a coup attempt in Venezuela during Trump

Nah, in Peru no coup d'état was promoted by the CIA, we do that alone

@@Pmartin7254 velALZCO ALVARADO TE SUENA?

Naw man eff Peru, lets get Iquitos back

@@David_AC90 Guayaquil is from Peru :v

​@@fandenovelas777 Nunca.

​@@rodycaz8984nos tuvieron que sacar de Guayaquil, a la proxima no esperen la ayuda de papi Brasil.

economic performance is the hallmark of a strong government. Unfortunately its strength comes from an iron fist rather than anything else. And no one actually benefits apart from the presidency and elites.

Alberto Fujimori's dictatorship caused all this. The economical growth under his unlegitimate dictatorship marginalized democracy, his constitution is literally still in power.. So nobody is talking about it, because Peruvians themselves prefer leaders like Fujimori (with economical growth) instead of a healthy democracy.

Castillo didn't said that, his political party leader did and it was a constant struggle even in electoral terms

Fujimori, like Pinochet, caused enormous division in opinion. Yes, he was corrupt, violent and dictatorial. However, he marginalized the Shining Path and and got the economy back on track. That's way more than can be said about Garcias first go as president. I think the tragic part of Peruvian politics is (and Simon missed kind of got this wrong) is that the ruling elite in Lima know how to run things better than the rural factions, they have always had the instinct to shelter money and power in Lima. The outsiders of Lima are shut out wrongly. However, they embrace stupid political ideas. For 19 years, it's been frustrating to watch.

Except Fujimori didn't killed criminals, on evidence he killed innocent people and journalists while shutting down the media when he did the coup, i don't think he really fixed the economy, it's more like it fixes itself even now it does and yes, it could be said political parties in lima are more competent but they're the ones who caused this, they overly do anything for lima while neglecting the other states, we live this as if we want a better medical treatment the people have to go to lima, and yes it's frustrating

@@justinpaul3110 Very true, but isn't that just a small katalysator of the situation ? In almost every country there is a big polarisation between the city and the rural areas. Look at the Netherlands (rural and urban polarisation) for example with the political party "BBB" winning a huge amount of seats in 1 election but yet there you don't see coups like in Peru. Spain (central Spain gets more revenue than the other areas), Portugal, Germany( East and West predominently) also has the same problem. But I think this one is just a typical resource curse with a people like in Saudi Arabia and Russia have no significant democratic tradition but a social contract with the government.

Agree. Summarizing job is grateful though

poor baby

@@backintimealwyn5736 I mean , trying to disprove bigots, slanderers and murder advocates every day and feeling like talking to a wall is not easy, but yeah, "poor baby"

@@luispereztassoMilei just won in Argentina. They’re in for a rude awakening

@@WTFisthe911 I hope he will be as any other extreme right wing politician here and just be corrupt, do nothing, blame other politicans or conspiracy theories, and betray all his advocates by not fulfilling his promises in the end, taking down his party in the process. Hard times are coming to Argentina :(

​@@luispereztassoal fin alguien sensato ,la verdad esque va a ser de lo mismo su misma ideología lo dice así.

Peruvian here, the problem is not Fujimorism, if anything Fujimori was able to rescue Peru from an economic and security crisis. The problem is the shit left winger politicians that the poor resentful people chose.

@@eltiofabs2808 spoken like a true fujimorist

In case Simon/Writers miss your comment, where can I read more myself? Hehe

that is gonna be an issue , the vast majority of academic and periodistic actual people are very left and the old literature until like 15 years ago are very right and quickly very left just when the upper class that flee the country during terrorism went back with left views . even worst if you divide into literature in english or spanish . if you read facebook in spanish yo would see peruvians that are less than 40 years saying that fujimori and saying that was the hitler and trump and the devil of peru . if you ask people that live in that era the opinions wouls be divided between people that live the bloody conflict see the dead people and desert towns with all executed before fujimori and the ones that want socialism or populism that say that fight the guerrillas with guerrilla tactis was too much even if the last 10 years and before fujimori even was a candidate , the number of killed by the terrorismo were in like 50k with body parts and police being crucified in the road . and everybody forgot that china and rusia finance and trained the terrorist leaders . that many times have urrs studies and money , chinesse weapons and mao-doctrine in the case of sendero luminoso , the biggest faction of the three that form in that time , everyone of them compiting to take the power for them@@jtau87

Out of touch with the situation on the ground are we?

It was first named "Perú Libertario " (Libertarian Peru). Quite a name for a Marxist communist party

It has always stayed at the control of the ruling 1%

Wait, there are free people that wants to be enslaved??

Not all socialist states are bad, much like not all capitalist states are shit holes like America. Regardless if it's public or private it all comes down to who is turning the gears.

Fujimori junior (herself a Japanese descedendant) has lost to a Lima-born, brown antiterrorist veteran social democrat; to a white Polish and French descendant libertarian banker; and to a hinterland-born, brown, union leader running with a communist agenda. All of them corrupt

It is a weird case of intolerance towards corruption. I challenge you to find another country that is prepared to pay the "political" price of prosecuting former or even current presidents. In my country, there is basically zero tolerance for corruption at the highest levels. ...and then again, our political leaders seem not to have got the memo and keep trying. And they always get caught. Lets chalk it up to "we have a very good track record of prosecution thanks to our JUDICIAL system, but the popular JUDGEMENT at election time is almost primitive". We like to joke and say that it is not the next Presidente (President in English) that we are electing, but the next Presidiario (Inmate in English).

Boluarte was not elected. She was Castillo's vicepresident.

@@ribps289 that is completely incorrect. In Perú, like in the US, we vote for a ticket, i.e. president and 2 vice presidents. It is incorrect to imply that she was not elected, she was and got to the presidency on a constitutional succession, no matter how traumatic (they are always are)

@@raulantunezdemayolo technically correct. Although Castillo voters don't know how democracy works and just wanted him to be a dictator (he promised to be a communist dictator in his campaign). Didn't matter who he had as vicepresident, he could've had a dog as as vicepresident and won anyways because his plan and himself were so popular. So yeah we voted both for Boluarte and Castillo (I voted Keiko but democracy voted Castillo so let's respect that), like it or not, even if Boluarte backstabbed Castillo after. Let's not be unfair to Castillo voters. People hate congress. 90% of Peruvians if not higher hates congress and want it replaced. And over half of the population want the whole institution gone. So a big chunk of Keiko voters or any voter really, only cares for getting the president in office. Vicepresidents and Congressmen are just filler, we vote them because we are forced to.

Not for that reason alone. Congress had been wanting to get rid of him for months, for the flimsiest and poorly supported arguments you can imagine. Castillo was just foolish enough to play into their hands and launch the worst planned coup attempt in our history. I mean, the guy did not even know how to do a proper coup which any authoritarian should know

​@@rosabellavitaalvarez-calde5836so it looks like he was too incompetent to even be president, nothing of value was lost.

yeah, that's the phrase. Just as (neo-)Naziism is rising in Europe and the continent gets more and more militarized. Learn from history or else you will repeat it.

The US itself will as well.

@@PrimericanIdol Hardly, the people and the world trusts on USA when it comes to investiments, while South American countries are well known for corruption and economic crisis all the time as they have no solid projects for economics and all it needs to achieve stability for long, depending only in commodities and other natural findings.

@@PrimericanIdol As it stands, this is unlikely. The US lacks two factors that would allow something like this to happen. 1, Despite what many may believe, the US legal system still works *enough*. The simple example is despite the decent attempt by Republicans and Trump, Trump is still in multiple courts and his cohorts are taking plea deals more and more. 2, the average person is simply not desperate enough to be willing to take a chance at revolution or insurgency. Not enough in numbers and not with enough support. You don't force a movement if you don't think life will get better for sure. But for life to get better **for sure**, it has to be pretty damn bad to start with.

Why do these people look asian

@@will891410 Are you still living in the 90s? Wake up. With the increasing Dedollarization going on, the impending economic collapse, and political upheaval, all of those positive attributes you impute on the US will evaporate.

I think enough people have shown interest that it will happen.

Porfavor puede esplicar? Porque también estoy pensando lo mismo

Sesgado . Thank you for the language lesson.

Lots of places can't catch a break. Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, etc. It's a sad and violent world we live in, eh?

Sad. Peru is one LATAM country I can't wait to visit actually.

THIS ×10000

Ya why don’t you try actually studying all those things before commenting that

A lot of those aren’t punishable offenses.

@@matthewdopler8997 * in the UK.. the question is, why not?

BSE was a long time coming as farmers fed their livestock with feed full of animal matter inc their own species despite warnings. You could say the govt were slow enforcing and creating laws to stop them. Covid, a very difficult virus to detect which people could carry and transmit yet have no symptoms. Yeah good luck stopping that. We should never have trusted politicians to run things. Other countries handed powers to the experts and it worked. I was more annoyed at the care homes allowing visitors and had no protocols and wondered why they lost elderly in droves. Boris was useless because he was voted in to do one thing. Get on with Brexit. 2nd Gulf War I was in and yeah the WMD excuse was no excuse imo. Saddam had used chemical weapons in his war on Iran and his own people many times putting down revolts. He was an idiot not to let the UN in which Putin had advised him to do. I deployed many times to Kuwait because every year he’d mass troops on Kuwaiti border to cause a reaction. Bush had had enough of that. That’s why we invaded. Costed us all a fortune protecting Kuwait. Afghanistan was an article 5 call up. The Taliban had been in rule for years and we didn’t give two monkeys about their regime until they helped hide Bin Laden and his pals. If they’d coughed them up we wouldn’t have been there decades. I was there a few times, first time supporting SF who worked with the Northern Alliance and our jets and I was quite disappointed in the Taliban. They ran away. I was expecting far harder times. 2002 the Taliban rang the new President and offered surrender but with one caveat. No Taliban get prosecuted for fighting. The idiot Karzai said no. We should have walked away right then. Not every little thing wrong on our lives is purely the govt’s fault.

he do what was needed to do . 50k deaths before he even was a candidate . the terrorist take childrens hostage and soldiers and in case of girls , night entertainment . they leave entire towns empty when they ask for goverment help . body parts and police being crucified in the road was something of everyday , extortions , ransom money , teachers beng threats into teach maos red book peruvian version , military families being killed , bombs in electric dams , doctors being taken as slaves , bussiness being looted "for the cause" and all this was generalized BEFORE fujimori . fujimori fight guerrilla war with guerrilla war . was the only solution . the presidents like garcia and before just ignore the problem because they dont want being see as opressors and risk reelection . he was a dictator and comit crimes? yes . there was another way? no . there was no pacific and democratic way to doit , even the congress have part influenced by the URRS . just to make you a example . the urrs built a giant hotel / cabaret whit russian teens and girls where congressman reunite to make laws and deals after lunch , the hotel was closed when the urrs fall . now is a apartment complex very well built . at like 80 meters from the congress . the economical spheres of usa and urrs was the issue in the 80s . that was the thing that nobody talk about . the urrs and china finance and trained people to make coups and elections in all latinoamerica , just like cuba and venezuela in the same way that usa finance coups and elections in the same decade but the urrs was more desperate because usa could cought more money and china/urrs take the guerrilla route like afghanistan and rusia or vietnam with usa where you just fund a faction that would work with you instead of direct action

Its because the good that came during his admin far outweighed the negative. The worst people like to complain about, was the sterilization of some folks living in illegal settlements. But look at it this way, they were being constantly being killed by landslides and told not to settle in those areas. Plus they never practiced contriception and were just popping out kids all willy-nilly. Hardly a crime against humanity. A lot of the people thar complain were even alive during the period of terrorism also. They even (not all) wanted alan garcia to be freed, and would vote for alan garcia a second friggin time

Because the positives outweight the negatives

@@stoned_kakapo8736 And the fact that you fail to see the "some folks who lived in illegal settlements" who "[are] popping out kids willy-nilly" as people is the reason why you don't understand crimes against humanity. Next, please.

@@Seeker52 you can't have kids, BIG WHOOP. But also, would you rather they keep living there while suffering many deaths during rainy times, year after year?

Facts. We want to hear more from our favorite Fact Boy.

At this point this is either a troll comment or people have turned their brains off. This is not a channel of simon. Simon is a payed presenter, payed for by a multi million dollar company that makes its money off of "independent looking" youtube channels, which is a form of propaganda by definition, and a media monopoly aswell. Every time you see Simon you can expect the same political ideology, not because it's his channels but because he gets payed by the same neo liberal propaganda machine all the time.

no is not . that is just the left version . 3/4 of the country want the president that try to close the congress out , the 1/4 that of the country (the south) have some unions that make the protests . and the protest ended in the capital 2 days later after the 8 people that pay them were detained to being asked from who are the money coming to offer 50 soles by day to protest . and in the south ended when the anual budget ended withouth adding money to "social programs" that just benefit those unions of 25k people" the protests ended too , all was about money that the old president promise if they support him . 2500 soles as universal salary just for exist , 5000 for his private police called "ronderos" and 10k for teachers and also for every big group that could make violent activism . the money that was found was traced to illegal minery , drug lords in the amazonas border and the goverment of bolivia that benefit directly of the investement in mining proyects in the region , many proyects went to them and chile . even 30 new buses come from bolivia with plaque numbers of bolivia recluting people for 300 soles to go to the capital and protest . they even offer food and lodging . they were even persecuted by people in neiborhoods when nobody rally with them and anounce that would start fires in houses if they not come to the protests , that day 400 protestatns flee the district of callao for their lifes when 800 peoples feed up of their threats

You are right 👍 Good analysis!

You are right Alonso👍 Good analysis!

which strong institution you talking about??? Fujimori destroyed everything and he and his constitution is the reason we are in this mess

As a peruvian living here, what I'm seeing, after reading some comments and see the video, is that it seems that both, are "some" leftists... 🤔 For example, these "poor babies" as you practically call them (the protesters) has burnt alive some cops, and other horrible things like that in that time, things that "are not normal" to see in Perú, but these protesters (a lot of them guided by cuban communists) have done it. Then the video is too, but too alarmist (trying not to say there are false statements). And as I've seen in another comment, you can walk here extremely safe also if you have a with a flag saying 'I hate you Boluarte', we don't have any secret police service or anything like that! In the other hand, I can admit that we have another real problems, like for example (and now I agree with you) the corruption in a lot of statements, and something in which you have to be alert is with robbers (and not in all districts) but unfortunately it has grown up in the last years mainly because of the "new migrants" with new robbers and mafias. So take more care of what you post, maybe you thought that here in Peru nobody speaks english or that it could be very difficult for us to found this videos... who knows, so please try to say always the truth.

Well I'm peruvian and peruvian resitent all my life, and it's impressive how difficult it is for Peruvians like me to understand that we do live in a police state, perhaps because since its foundation it has been one and we were born into it. Every year social leaders are murdered in Peru by the army, the police, or their criminal associates such as organized mafias. It never appears in the news, and if it does, they are called terrorists and the majority of Peruvians believe that their extrajudicial murders are part of a rule of law and not a police state, because in a rule of law we ALL share the same rights. It is incredible how we deny the fact that our political and economic system is closely linked to drug trafficking, illegal mining, illegal logging, animal and human trafficking, and that this money enters the economy through banks and various formal companies. It is incredible that we do not remember that Fujimori (the "hero" who defeated Sendero Luminoso) does not fall because of his proven links with drug trafficking but because of his links with the Colombian terrorist group FARC, to whom he sold weapons, and that his children are involved with the drug trafficker Juaquín Ramires and are owners of the LIMASA company, in whose warehouses were found, the first time, 100 kilos of cocaine and the second half a ton. It is incredible that we do not see that the Attorney General dismissed the prosecutor who was investigating her sister for association with drug trafficking, that we do not remember the vladivideo of the famous businessman Dionisio Romero in the SIN room negotiating with Vladimiro Montesinos. Anyway, when you are born and live your entire life in a sewer, you are no longer able to smell the shit.

Eso es exactamente lo que pensaba, también hay que tener en cuenta que bajo la cosmovisión de la mayoría de angloparlantes (que provienen en su mayoría de países occidentales desarrollados), el tipo de conflictos de corrupción, abuso de poder, conflictos de intereses es mucho mas complejo y mucho menos "by the book" (ósea como se supone que funcionaria en la practica), en otras palabras es mucho mas sucio y multidimensional. Por lo tanto, es mucho mas complicado de comprender. Pero lo que dices esta genial, concuerdo totalmente.

@@oscarfreyre7930 no, I disagree. If there really were an attempt to have a police state, the police wouldn’t be as poorly funded as it currently is. For most citizens, the biggest issue is insecurity (not enough police presence). If we’re talking about “social leaders” both you and I know they aren’t that and that most of their deceases happen in skirmishes with entirely lawful law enforcement. Fujimori’s government was undeniably corrupt but trying to shovel dirt over his children is simply naive. Keiko was imprisoned for over a year and the trial didn’t even start. There was Huge political will to have her in prison and she is currently free. That says something, or at the very least should make us be a bit more reserved with our accusations against her. I believe we live in a very corrupt country but it definitely isn’t a police state. This country also has a huge problem with political extremism and violence (mainly originated from the far left which is, by nature, populist and attractive to the poorly educated). The “extrajudicial” stuff you mention, is in my opinion just you being a bit conspiranoic, as I believe it’s just the product of skirmishes between violent insurgents and lawful law enforcement. After all, attempting to take all of these insurgents to trial would end up in many military and police deaths. I believe the far left political movements are the cancer of this country but I also believe that their success in appealing to a large portion of the population has been enabled by the mismanagement of the state by both leftist and right wing governments. The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system. After all, a large portion of our population is uneducated enough to not perceive Pedro Castillo’s extreme lack of preparation not just for government but even for a job as primary teacher. I understand that a president doesn’t need to be an economist, just as a CEO doesn’t need to be a CFO, but the administrator of the organization (in this case the state) must have a decent understanding of the functioning parts.

@@fabriziogonzales9719 A police state does not mean that the police control the state, it does not have to be literal. A police state refers to a state that uses the police for POLITICAL control. In the case of Peru, precisely its use for political control prevents its use against crime. That is to say, precisely the high crime is evidence that the Peruvian state uses the police for political control and not for the fight against crime. I am not smearing Fujimori's children because they are, but because they are smeared by themselves: his company LimaSA where the prosecutor's office found first 100 kilos and then 500 kilos of cocaine, his direct association with Joaquin Ramirez currently prosecuted for drug trafficking, the vote unanimous of its congressmen for the elimination of the domain extinction law, its links with Los Cuelloos Blanco and a long etcetera. "The “extrajudicial” stuff you mention, is in my opinion just you being a bit conspiranoic" WHAT!!!!! This is true flat-earthering, this is true conspiracy theory. For God's sake, just look at the dozens of videos filmed by citizens where extrajudicial murders are clearly seen: when someone kills a human being without prior trial, legally it is called extrajudicial murder. Extrajudicial murders are not an opinion or speculation, you can literally find visual evidence of it if you just clear your mind and search on KZfaq. There they are, and those videos are what the IDL journalists used to create a documentary that has already won 2 international journalism awards. But of course, surely the earth is still flat. "as I believe it's just the product of skirmishes between violent insurgents and lawful law enforcement." Watch the videos, just that. Of the 110 protests that took place at the beginning of this year, only 10% were violent. In the storming of the capitol in the USA the police did not kill anyone, in the very violent protests in Paris the police did not kill anyone, in the storming of the Brazilian congress the police did not kill anyone. That is called the rule of law. In Peru the police and the army killed 49 people (corroborated), that is called the police state. These are not opinions, they are data, facts. "a large portion of our population is uneducated enough to not perceive Pedro Castillo's..." Yes, but the other portion of our population is so uneducated that it does not perceive that Fujimori, Lopez Aliaga, Luna Galvez, Acuña, etc. are very well prepared only to commit a crime. Just because one is bad does not mean that opposites are good. "The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system." No, that is positive thinking, self-help, pure voluntarism, it is like saying that the problem is having problems. Just ask yourself why there is no good education? to understand that "The biggest issue being an extremely lacking educational system" is a wrong way of approaching the problem, because then the problem would not be education, but the causes of why there is no education. And the main cause of that is absolute corruption. Did you know that Peru is today the first exporter of cocaine hydrochloride in the world? Have you ever wondered why despite that there is no known cartel or godfather of the Peruvian mafia? It is because the Peruvian status quo is deeply associated with these mafias, it does not persecute them and therefore no one knows them, because it is impossible to be the first producer/seller of cocaine in the world without owning the largest cartels in the world. Get informed, but not from news programs that think like you, get informed about all the opinions, and above all, read the sources. Base your opinion on evidence, if possible scientific evidence, not on intuition. Data.

You have no idea how good you have it until you go to South America. This political turmoil here is NOTHING compared to Peru. Nothing.

​@justinpaul3110 just wait.democrats are nor starting ww3 for nothing.

as an international analyst and peruvian you failed miserably

You are right 👍 Good analysis! Shinning path (sendero luminoso) are "Terrorists" not a guerilla.

The power is always held by the few. What you perceive as 50 political parties, in reality, there's just a uniparty. It's the same thing everywhere. You could say that the uniparty in Peru has 50 masks. In the US, we also have a uniparty. 75% of the time Republicans and Democrats vote for the same things, betraying their constituents. It's just corruption. Another thing is also true. The people that have good intentions are also few, but the number can be grown with the proper education. I don't mean by making university graduates out of the population. Just teaching others the basic things of how the government should work, what is money and its uses, and which promises that are made are actually fulfillable.

Politically, yes. Legally, not

Yea that plane was full of weapons and was sabotaged by......a foreign entity that did not appreciate where they were coming from and who they were going to.

Naa, it shows us where US politics are headed. None of this seems out of bounds for some of those clowns.

Our politicians are just more unified in their corruption, nobody wants to call anyone out because they're all guilty of the same shit. All their "disagreements" are just political theater, for the voters.

@@techn1kal1ty EXACTLY.. and they're uncloaking as we watch. Neither side is doing anything to stop it either. But I noticed that decades ago. Listen to their words, but WATCH their actions is my moto. It tells you EVERYTHING.

@@techn1kal1ty I'm really trying not to be a pessimist, but... 😒

No way, i actually prefer the stupid congressmen we have as leaders, everything but the kid sniffing Joe Biden

What do you think being forced to flee the country is...?

Agree, except that Fujimori actually knew how to do a proper coup. Castillo was caught in traffic while trying to flee!

Even as a Dictator Castillo was a moron

You call it a coup while he literally put Peru in the sight of foreign investors and caused continuos economic growth, and got rid of the majority of terrorists. He was not a dictator... He could have made laws when he removed the congress. Remember that dictators most of their lives are in rule since they changed the constitution in their favor and granting them full power, did he do that? No. He did it to help Peru. People seem to forget all the things he did and just believe the lies of the communists.

Merino no mató a nadie. La gente simplemente no sabe como es la sucesión de poderes. Vizcarra fue destituido (como sea) y la Merino le correspondía asumir el rol de presidente. Merino no tuvo la culpa de que a la gente no le haya gustado eso (porque no saben nada de la sucesión de poderes) y salieron a protestar. Obviamente, Merino tuvo que mandar a que la policía controle las protestas porque se estaban saliendo de control, pero él no mandó a matar a nadie.