New government in Peru: "a predictable strategic choice"
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Mirtha Vasquez was sworn in on October 6, 2021, in Lima.
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the resignation of his Prime Minister, two months after taking office, a decision that automatically involves that of the entire government.
He is replaced by Mirtha Vásquez, environmental and human rights activist, former president of the Congress.
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Mirtha Vásquez succeeds Guido Bellido, a 41-year-old engineer with no political experience, whose head of state had announced his resignation a few hours earlier. The now ex-head of government was appointed, on July 29, 2021, to head the first government of Pedro Castillo, from the same Marxist-Leninist party Peru Libre. Since his appointment, strong tensions reigned in Parliament - dominated by the right - which demanded his departure. All this was
"predictable from the start",
says our guest Lissell Quiroz, professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cergy Paris.
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"Pedro Castillo had made the choice of a Prime Minister marked on the left, radical, who wanted a policy of rupture and this aroused a strong opposition of the economic power which pressed for this change",
according to Lissell Quiroz who adds:
" this change was thought out in advance to satisfy the basic electorate and then widen "
towards the more moderate and progressive left that represents Mirtha Vásquez,
" a 46-year-old lawyer, engaged in politics for a long time, especially in the social movements of the northern Peru and for the protection of rural communities against extractivist companies ”.
With this choice, Pedro Castillo
"gives all the pledges to the left to have its support in parliament on its reforms",
explains our guest.
Gangs in the oil products market in Haiti
It is a phenomenon which is growing in the country.
The scarcity of petroleum products, observed for several weeks, is linked in particular to the prevailing insecurity and to the armed gangs which impose their will on the transporters.
The bandits intercept most of the trucks leaving the Port-au-Prince oil terminal.
The intercepted trucks are hijacked, often the gangs recover all the gasoline that these trucks contain, then they detain the truck and the driver to whom they then ask to call the owner to ransom him by demanding a sum of money from him. , explains the editor of Le
Nouvelliste
Frantz Duval.
And the authorities' response seems weak in view of the shortage caused and the consequences that this has on many parts of the lives of Haitians.
In Texas, a victory for the pro-abortionists
A federal judge in Texas in the United States temporarily blocked, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the controversial law that bans the majority of abortions in that state, as part of a complaint filed by the Biden government which immediately welcomed a " victory ”for the Texans. Texas can temporarily no longer enforce the law, supported by Republicans, according to the ruling. The White House hailed "
an important step towards restoring the constitutional rights of women in the state of Texas
." The conservative state will likely appeal the decision to one of Texas' more conservative courts of appeals. And the legal battle could once again be taken to the United States Supreme Court.
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