The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorconsidered this Thursday that there is “racism” behind the attempt of the “elite” and the “conservatives” to remove the president of Peru, the leftist Pedro Castillo.
What interests them are their privileges, and above all the privilege of commanding, and more in this case that they consider it from the mountains, racism is added to it, so they don’t want it,” the president declared at his press conference. morning.
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López Obrador had already said briefly on Tuesday that the conservatives are trying to “remove” Castillo because they consider him a “popcorn” Y “cholo“, derogatory expressions in Mexico and Peru, respectively, to refer to low-income brown people.
Imagine the president of Peru, he has, I think in a year, three political trials, one accusing him of being out of his mind, of being crazy. Another accusing him of crime. And the latter, already to the extreme, that there is a risk with him that he can give Bolivia access to the sea ”, he deepened this Thursday.
Process against Castillo deepens
His statements come after the Peruvian parliament admitted this Wednesday for processing the constitutional complaint that the Prosecutor’s Office filed against Castillo for criminal organizationinfluence peddling and collusion.
The trials against Castillo have deepened the political crisis in Peru, which has had five different presidents since 2016.
López Obrador gave his opinion on the South American country while arguing that his opponents in Mexico wanted to have a majority in Congress to do something similar against his government.
Since he does not have a majority (Castillo), he is there without being able to do anything, and the conservatism, the elite, does not care that it is paralyzed, that an entire country is affected, ”he said.
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