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#Bestof2021: The early unpromising moments of President Pedro Castillo: #NewWorldReport: Unknown Castillo takes command. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org (Or

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

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#Bestof2021: The early unpromising moments of President Pedro Castillo: #NewWorldReport: Unknown Castillo takes command. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org (Originally posted July 26, 2021)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/peru-opposition-to-lead-congress-in-setback-for-socialist-castillo/ar-AAMAhZX

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New World Report. I'm John Bachelorette with Joseph Omar, the Executive Director of Secure

0:40.9

Free Society. This is the New World Report. And we're looking at the Latin American turmoil

0:46.9

but at the same time. There is an election in Peru that has now been resolved in some important

0:53.1

fashion. The recognition of the newly elected president of Brazil, I read from the AP report.

1:00.1

A teacher and one of the poorest communities in the Andes who had never held office and

1:04.5

now is now Peru's president elect after officials in the South American country declared

1:10.3

in the winner of a runoff. Leftist Pedro Castillo, catapulted from unknown to president

1:17.2

elect with the support of the country's poor and rural citizens, many of whom identify

1:22.2

with the struggles the teacher has faced. Castillo is officially declared winner after the country's

1:27.7

electoral count became the longest and 40 years as his opponents fought the results. His

1:33.8

opponent was Kiko Joseph Helpmey. Yes, thank you. Who is the daughter of a previous

1:43.6

president? So this gets very tangled with the politics of the regime and the previous

1:50.1

regime as we've seen with Brazil. So to sort this out, Joseph, let's now begin that there's

1:55.8

no longer a doubt about who the next president is. It's now Castillo. What does he represent

2:02.8

to not only to the people of Peru but to the whole region? Is he a change in weather or

2:08.7

is he a type that we've seen before a novice taking the palace?

2:15.7

John, that's a good question and I'm concerned. I have do have friends in Peru that are trying

2:23.1

to convince me that they believe that Castillo is going to be more moderate than what his

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