The article describes Dina Boluarte as Peru's "unelected president" — but a different description would be that she was vice-president at the time that president Pedro Castillo attempted a failed self-coup to elevate himself from president to dictator, and was then impeached & removed by Congress.

As a US citizen, I have to wonder if there's an analogy there with Mike Pence, who was VP to president Donald Trump but did not cooperate in Trump's attempted self-coup on January 6 2021. Pence's non-cooperation arguably saved the US from a Trump dictatorship.

Peruvians, or other folks who know more about Peruvian politics — is that an entirely terrible analogy?

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The situation is pretty complex. I don't have my finger on it entirely, but I get the feeling he was going to be forced out whether he self-couped or not. They seemed to be looking to remove him from the get go and were obstructionist

[–] timicin@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

i love how the people he's screwed hard enough to be forced out of politics continue to publicly insist that they're best buddies with him in the hopes of continuing to woo some kind of base; especially pence. lol