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Youth-Led Protesters Ousted Peru’s President

November 20, 2025 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
Since Sept. 13, thousands of protesters have been marching in Lima, the capital of Peru, demanding new leadership. They say the conservative administration, which has overseen the murders and extortion of protesters and journalists, is corrupt and does not represent them. Protests have been ongoing in Peru since 2022, when the conservative government of President Dina Boluarte took power after Congress impeached and removed former President Pedro Castillo, a progressive leftist leader who had a background in organizing. More than 50 protesters were killed under the Boluarte regime.

Peru’s Executive In Crisis

November 2, 2025 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
On October 9, 2025, the Peruvian Congress once again voted to vacate the executive; this time the usefulness of their puppet Dina Boluarte had run out. With more than 80 deaths under her belt during the 2022-23 uprisings predominantly in the Southern mineral rich regions of Peru, Dina Boluarte was sacrificed to the altar of a dictatorial right wing Congress. With 122 votes in favor of vacating the region’s most unpopular president for “permanent moral incapacity” amid growing crime and protests in the capitol city demanding action. Congress swiftly approved the new Interim President, president of the Congress, José Jerí. Within days of taking power, the new “president” (perhaps more accurately named Congressional coup figurehead), faced the same level of mass protests as had taken place during the  Boluarte regime. 

Peru’s Congress Ousts De Facto President Dina Boluarte

October 11, 2025 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
In the early hours of Friday, October 10, Peru’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to remove President Dina Boluarte from office on the grounds of “permanent moral incapacity”. The emergency session was called to debate her impeachment amid the most recent wave of mass anti-government protests that have been escalating since September. A shooting at a cumbia concert of one of Peru’s most popular groups, Agua Marina, on Wednesday sparked renewed anger and protests at the government’s inability to address systemic crime. ABC News reports that 6,041 people have been killed this year alone, a significant increase from the last several years. Extortion, in particular, has spiked massively, with complaints totaling “15,989 between January and July, a 28% increase from the same period in 2024.”

Protests Continue In Peru, As Polls Register 96% Rejection Of Boluarte

October 8, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Another massive mobilization took place on October 4 in Lima, Peru’s capital, against the government of Dina Boluarte. With this mobilization, it has now been three weeks in a row that thousands of Peruvians have taken to the streets to demand an end to the proposed pension reform, corruption, insecurity, and police abuse. But, as several analysts have pointed out, the protests are no longer focused solely on specific issues, but on raising the demand for an end to the Boluarte government. Boluarte took office after the overthrow of then-President Pedro Castillo, and led to the deaths of more than 60 Peruvians following massive protests between 2022 and 2023.

Peruvian People Reject Neocolonial Boluarte Coup Regime

August 16, 2025 Clau O'Brien-Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
On July 28th, Perú celebrated its 204th anniversary of the independence of Peru from Spanish colonial rule. Inside Congress, the most unpopular president in the world, Dina Boluarte, gave a five-hour-long speech in which she claimed, among other things, to launch an array of infrastructural projects to boost the economy.  The scenes outside were a vastly different world. Protestors, delegations of farmworkers and families of martyrs and victims from the south, organizations representing neighborhood unions and others gathered in the center of the city to hear the message of ousted President Pedro Castillo, from the Penal Barbadillo prison, where he is a political prisoner held under pre-trial detention since December 7, 2022. 

US Reinforces Control Over Peru

October 21, 2024 La Línea, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
On June 7, 2021, a political earthquake occurred in Peru. A political outsider, the rural teacher Pedro Castillo, was elected president of the country with the promise of transforming a political and economic system built on great inequalities among the Peruvian population. The first measure taken by this government was the initiative of Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar to leave the Lima Group, which weakened the regime change operation against Venezuela, initiated by the United States. The foreign minister’s sovereign decision would cost him his job. Just 15 days after taking office, he was dismissed by Congress.

Perú Grapples With Violence As SOUTHCOM Expands

October 16, 2024 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
Nearly two years after the US-backed parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo, a wave of extortions, assassinations and a crime spree has rocked the cities of Lima and Callao, among others. At least nine deaths have been reported in just a few days leading up to the national strike called by the Unión de Gremios de Transporte Multimodal del Perú, the national syndicate that brings together different transport workers unions (from mototaxistas to bus drivers) under one formation. Gangs, or perhaps more accurately named armed paramilitary groups, have specifically targeted popular working class neighborhoods, such as Puenta Piedra and Los Olivos, and have left multiple transport workers dead from not paying extortion fees.

Peruvian Transport Workers Strike To Demand An End To Extortion

October 16, 2024 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
On Thursday, October 10, several associations of transportation workers and companies in Peru began a work stoppage that lasted until Saturday, October 12, protesting rising crime and extortion by criminal groups in Peru’s major cities. In their industrial action, they were joined by hundreds of people from trade and business associations, as well as some citizen and student organizations. Why? The security crisis that Peruvians are experiencing is worsening significantly. In fact, this is the first time that protests of this type and for this reason have taken place in Peru, which shows the severity of the situation and the uncertain consequences that this type of demand could cause, politically speaking, in Peruvian society.

Fujimori Is Dead, Fujimorismo Is Not

October 4, 2024 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Former dictator and genocidaire Alberto Fujimori died on September 11, nine months after Peru’s Supreme Court illegally reinstated his pardon for crimes against humanity. His daughter and three-time presidential election loser, Keiko Fujimori, announced his death on the X platform a day after rumors started swirling. Sadly, Fujimori died peacefully in his home surrounded by family despite being responsible for massacres, torture, forced sterilizations, crimes against humanity, economic shock therapy and the selling off of the country to US economic and military interests. The families of his victims received neither reparations nor a formal apology.

Protests Mark One Year Anniversary Of Coup Regime In Peru

December 9, 2023 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
December 7, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of the US backed right-wing parliamentary coup that ousted democratically elected president Pedro Castillo Terrones. The past 364 days have been some of the bloodiest, most repressive, and tumultuous in recent Peruvian history and the blood continues to be spilled. The US-backed Boluarte regime, led by the Fujimorista right-wing Congress, now has the blood of over 100 martyrs on its hands, with thousands severely injured, imprisoned, and tortured, and many more disappeared. There has yet to be justice in any of these cases as the prosecutor’s office becomes mired in corruption charges and telenovela-styled backstabbing between the executive power, the judicial powers, and members of Congress.

Peruvians Reject Boluarte’s Visit To US For United Nations General Assembly

September 29, 2023 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , ,
This past week was the 78th United Nations General Assembly as leaders from around the globe flew to New York City for a week of high-level meetings and speeches. Among those featured to speak at the GA was Dina Boluarte, the current coup leader of the Andean country of Perú. Since December 7th, 2022, the Peruvian masses have organized themselves and mobilized against this U.S. backed coup led by the far right dominated Congress beholden to local and international elite interests that ousted democratically elected president Pedro Castillo Terrones.

Peruvians Take Over Lima, Continue To Pressure Boluarte Coup Regime

July 29, 2023 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Peruvians are currently in the streets to oust the unelected regime led by Dina Boluarte,  reinstate the democratically-elected Castillo, replace the unrepresentative Congress with a Constituent Assembly that can rewrite the Fujimori-era Constitution, and get justice for the more than 80 Peruvians killed and  thousands injured and imprisoned since the start of the coup on 7 December 2022. In the leadup to the July 19th mobilization, Peruvian National Police erected identification and search checkpoints, targeting individuals and buses entering Lima, including from the PanAmerican South Highway. Days before the National March, the police also held a military style parade through the center of Lima.

Police Crack Down On Demonstrators; Protests Against Boluarte Government

July 25, 2023 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
This Saturday, thousands of Peruvians faced severe police hostility while taking part in the great national march against the government of Dina Boluarte, marking the context of the third Seizure of Lima. The demonstrators convened at various locations across Lima, including Dos de Mayo and Bolognesi Squares. From these points, they initiated a march towards the seat of the Congress, voicing slogans of discontent towards both the executive and legislative bodies. Despite the peaceful nature of the protest, the Peruvian Police deployed tear gas against a group of demonstrators who were making their way from Abancay Avenue into San Martin Square.

Peru: Social Movements Demand Resignation Of De Facto President

July 23, 2023 Al Mayadeen, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
The National Unitary Coordination Platform of Struggle (CNUL), composed of several Peruvian social movements, called for a new march on Saturday to demand the resignation of de facto President Dina Boluarte. The platform of social movements announced that Saturday, July 22, will be a day of peaceful struggle, with marches in working class neighborhoods of the northern, southern and eastern parts of Lima, and in other regions of the country. On Wednesday, July 19, marchers from all over the country took over the capital and 59 other provinces, and the CNUL plans to continue the same during July 24-29.

Peru Escalates The Struggle Against The Boluarte Regime

July 22, 2023 Alejandra Garcia, Resumen English. , , ,
The people of Peru took to the streets this Wednesday and Thursday to demand the resignation of the main leaders of President Dina Boluarte’s regime, the advancement of general elections, and the restitution of democracy in the Andean nation. More than 20,000 Peruvians are the protagonists of the Great March of the Peoples, the Takeover of Peru. They want a change, and they want it now. The anti-government protests reactivated four months after the long wave of social anger that convulsed Peru between last December and March, following the coup against left-wing former president Pedro Castillo.
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