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...Last month, Castillo described an investigation led by the attorney-general into wrongdoing as a “coup d’état”....
...She assumed office in December 2022 following the removal and imprisonment of Pedro Castillo, who had attempted to close congress and rule by decree....
...Boluarte, a former lawyer with little political experience before she was elected vice-president in 2021, succeeded hard-left president Pedro Castillo in December 2022 after Castillo was impeached and jailed...
...President Dina Boluarte, who succeeded Castillo amid violent protests, has approval ratings of about 10 per cent while congress has about 6 per cent, according to local pollsters....
...“The first thing that needs to happen in Ecuador is that the violence ends,” said José Castillo, a 30-year-old music producer in Quito who plans to vote for González....
...Dina Boluarte, who served as Castillo’s vice-president, was sworn in as the Andean country’s first female head of state on Wednesday afternoon following Castillo’s ousting and must now try to forge a majority...
...Violent unrest roiled the country earlier this year after Congress removed leftwing president Pedro Castillo following his attempt to seize extra-constitutional powers....
...The measures are on top of a $2.1bn package to boost economic recovery after parts of the country were shut down by violent unrest following the removal of leftwing president Pedro Castillo earlier this...
...To his supporters, Castillo — a former primary school teacher and subsistence farmer from rural Chota province in the northern Andes — represented a break with the status quo....
...Some leftist leaders in the region have indicated some degree of support for Castillo....
...The president of Peru’s constitutional court said in a live broadcast that Castillo was attempting a “coup”. The armed forces and police distanced themselves from Castillo....
...Pedro Castillo, who was arrested last December after attempting to close congress and rule by decree, is under pre-trial detention in the same military facility on the outskirts of Lima....
...Lawmakers from ousted leftwing president Pedro Castillo’s Peru Libre party have refused to support any changes that do not open the door to drafting a new constitution....
...Castillo — a former primary school teacher and subsistence farmer from the rural Chota province in the northern Andes — represented a break with the status quo....
...Boluarte’s disapproval sits at about 71 per cent, similar to Castillo before he was removed from office....
...Castillo remains in custody in a police base on the outskirts of Lima....
...The academic described Castillo’s move as a “self-coup”....
...When the presiding judge gave Castillo the floor at the end of the hearing, he was uncharacteristically quiet....
...He has publicly attacked Nicaragua’s “family dictatorship” led by Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega and his vice-president wife Rosario Murillo....
...Joe Parkin Daniels Well, she was obviously Castillo’s vice-president and therefore comes with the baggage of being a member of the Castillo administration, an administration that was constantly dubbed with...
...Much of the unrest has been focused in the copper-rich south, where Castillo — viewed as a champion for the rights of indigenous and rural communities — remains popular for his rhetoric against large-scale...
...Peru’s embattled president, Pedro Castillo — who is facing numerous judicial investigations — was barred by his congress from travelling to Colombia....
...A Cuban-trained doctor who was barred from running himself because of a corruption conviction, Cerrón was the author of a notorious manifesto that praised Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Hugo Chávez and Nicolás...
...The party’s founder, Vladimir Cerrón, names Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba among a select “group of presidents who gave the continent...
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