Peru

nation state

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Location	South America
Leader	President of Peru
Type	nation state
Nation state in South America with cocaine growing capacity used by the SDS

Peru is a nation state in South America.

Government

2022

In December 2022 Dina Boluarte assumed power in a coup d’état after former President Pedro Castillo was impeached. The day before the coup d’état overthrowing Castillo, the US ambassador to Peru, Lisa Kenna, met with Gustavo Bobbio Rosas, Peru's defense minister. "Kenna is a CIA veteran and worked with embassies in former tank commander Mike Pompeo's state department. Her state department bio does not mention nine years spent at the CIA."

Violent protests occurred in the country soon after.

2020

Peru instigated one of the world's first COVID-19 lockdowns, nominally in response to COVID-19. Starting on March 16, 2020, it was also one of the strictest and longest. In April 2020, the government called up around 10,000 army reservists to go and find all the people that could be found that would "test positive" for Covid and then extract them from their families no matter how old they were and isolate them. This economic and social deprivation caused a huge spike in deaths, which could then officially be attributed to "Covid". By August 2020 the nation had one of the world's highest death reported death rates "from Covid".

Alberto Fujimori's CIA-backed narco-kleptocracy

In 1990, Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru. His election was a shocking event for serious political analysts. Fujimori could never have won without the backing of Peruvian lawyer (and CIA spook) Vladimiro Montesinos, who provided funding and media exposure to secure Fujimori's victory. Fujimori's kleptocracy ranks #7 on the Wikipedia's list. He later fled to Japan but was arrested in Chile and extradited. After the fall of Fujimori's government, the country had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the massive corruption and the mass killings carried out by both the government and resistance to it. This reported that 69,280 people were killed between 1980 and 2000.