In recent months, a key handful of former legislators and cabinet ministers from Ibero-America have stepped forward to initiate a world citizens’ movement with the Schiller Institute, taking leadership to stop nuclear war and secure peace and development everywhere. Optimism has been growing that, with Lula da Silva’s election victory in Brazil, the whole region could become active participants in the BRI and the BRICS.
London responded with their stock-in-trade: chaos, violence, and uprisings. The ideologies of the revolts may differ from country to country, but the intent of the guiding hand behind them — to make the region ungovernable — is the same. Take the cases of Peru and Brazil in the last week.
In Peru, mass protests and violent rampages (including seizing control of one airport, blocking highways, etc.) by “leftists,” radical indigenists, and drug-linked Sendero Luminoso networks began last week after the Peruvian Congress (with military backing) removed President Pedro Castillo from office – after Castillo had attempted to disband the Congress. The protestors are demanding that the arrested Castillo be restored to power, and that a Constituent Assembly be convened to draft a new Constitution. Five people have been killed in the protests — so far – and the crisis situation is worsening.
