US is invited to invade Peru by an unelected Peruvian "government" - aka a tyrannical dictatorship - (to protect access to lithium deposits used by tech companies?)
From here:
Now American Troops Are Going Into Peru. What in the hell? - Whatfinger Daily
“Why are we going into Peru now? The Corporations demand it… Why isn’t US media covering the coup in Peru? Biden installed a CIA veteran as ambassador and is now sending US troops to the nation. Coup, CIA, US troops?!? This is a huge story and yet nada in the MSM.”
Political turmoil has been brewing for quite a while, see this from 6 months ago:
Amid coup, countercoup claims – what really went down in Peru and why? (theconversation.com)
“The primary objective of this operation is to lend support and assistance to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru’s Special Operations, especially in regions recently plagued by violence.”
“it has been confirmed that US military personnel will shortly be arriving in Peru. The Plenary Session of Peru’s Congress on May 18 authorized the entry of US troops onto Peruvian territory with the expressed intention of engaging in cooperation activities with Peru’s armed forces and national police.”
Mexico is a little pissed.
“Mexican President AMLO is blocking Peru from assuming the temporary presidency of the Pacific Alliance regional trade bloc because there is no "democratic normalcy".
AMLO said Peru's unelected leader Boluarte "usurped the presidency".
He condemned Peru's coup regime for murdering dozens of protesters, and said, "humble people, poor people were repressed by those in the government".
So is Brazil:
More here:
Why Are US Military Personnel Heading to Peru? | naked capitalism
“Peru is currently under the control of an unelected government that is heavily supported by Washington but overwhelmingly rejected by the Peruvian people. The crackdown on protests in the south of the Peru by the country’s security forces — the same security forces that US military personnel will soon be joining — has led to dozens of deaths. Peru’s Congress is refusing to call new elections in total defiance of public opinion. Just a few days ago, the country’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that some legal scholars have interpreted as essentially criminalising political protest.”
Makes you wonder how this compares to the “defend democracy in Ukraine to the last Ukrainian” stacks up with helping Peru’s security forces murder voters protesting an unelected junta, no?
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But I thought this was a glorious American Tradition; you know, Mexico, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam ,Argentina, Chile, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Australia in 1975... 60 sovereign nations since WWII. Same ol' same ol'. Peru will make 61 countries thus invaded; their resources confiscated, and their people reduced to slavery.
Sigh, I understand this so well, especially as I am currently protesting against the missile launching pad a few miles from where I write, operated by Ratheon and LockheedMartin, and the twelveth US military instalation to dominate our remote Northern Territory of Australia. But I must protest quietly because the Marines Corp has lots of Abram tanks in a warehouse ready to silence The Inconvenient.
I suppose you are wondering why I should protest against the Freedom & Democracy thus bestowed on me. I am a little picky, I guess, but its just that US missiles are obsolete and the Russians and Chinese are a full generation ahead; which means that when the Pentagon enacts the 2015 Rand Report recommendation and positions to attack China, the missile site will be obliterated and with it, solid fuel and warheads will be vaporised, to then drift over Arnhem Land killing around 14,000 Australians with chlorine gas and heavy metals.
The same armada of missiles will vaporise Darwin causing the giant Inpex gas tank to explode and level a radius of 20-something miles. That will wipe out another part of my family, five grandchildren lost thus far.
Actually, it seems to me the people of Peru are getting off lightly. Their Freedom & Democracy will be a whole lot less lethal than ours.
Lithium. Peru has lithium. And so did Afghanistan. And Peru has had U.S. troops visit and rotate in and out with no base.