Observers say President Pedro Castillo's impeachment by Peru's Congress this week sent a damning message to Latin America's left that attempts to play fast and loose with the rules will be met with a stern institutional response.
Protesters outside of Peru's Congress gathered in support of former President Pedro Castillo, who was impeached on Wednesday.
"Castillo posed an institutional menace on an altogether different scale," Daniel Raisbeck, a Latin American political analyst at the Cato Institute, told Fox News Digital."To begin with, his party’s program for the 2021 election included numerous measures that explicitly sought to violate the constitution’s unequivocal safeguards for private property, which it declares ‘inviolable.
Raisbeck said that Castillo was a clear and present danger to the Peruvian economy."The constitution also guarantees free enterprise, foreign investment, and press freedom. Castillo’s platform, on the other hand, set out an agenda of nationalizing the mining sector and other major industries, expropriating land and getting rid of Peru’s successful private pension system," he explained.
Finally, in swift succession, his own vice president, Dina Boluarte, publicly condemned Castillo’s actions:
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