Behind the doors of the Peruvian Congress a small, paranoid class of people plot their course, feeling anxious about the future waiting for them outside, among the popular masses marching down the street. Since Dec. 7, Peru has been trapped in a paradox, the people have been challenging the state on the street, the right has been working to defend their gains by any means, and the country’s political system is crumbling, and it will continue to crumble as long popularly elected president of Peru, Pedro Castillo remains imprisoned. The situation is dire, the future is unknown, but a question remains unanswered, why is this happening?

It all begins months ago with President Castillo undergoing unimaginable terror under the threat of the oligarchy of Peru, they own the Congress and since Castillo’s victory have been working to bar all of his bills and policies; instead of reviewing his bills that would answer the demands his constituents among the working and indigenous communities called for, Congress focuses their attention to push the motion to dissolve his presidency. Despite continuous popular upheavals among the Peruvian masses, the legislative faction of the state ignored their cries, and again Castillo is left with two options: he can either wait this struggle out or be a political actor for history and put an end to the vanguardist hold of the right. He chose the latter, and on Dec. 7, the president called to “temporarily dissolve the Congress” and “[establish] an exceptional emergency government.” (People’s Dispatch)

Subsequently, after a few hours passed the Congress put a warrant out for Castilo's arrest, and despite him and his groups speed they were picked up trying to be fly out the country with the support of the Mexican embassy.

And now the country is sparked into a political crisis, with Congress announcing their intention to appoint a new president and keep Castillo and his affiliates imprisoned. Despite his intentions to protect the Peruvian democracy and people’s interest, he played right into the right’s plan; or to be specific, the Peruvian Congress, Keiko Fujimori, competing president candidate and daughter of previous fascist President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, and her partner in crime Mariano Alvarado, operations officer of the Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG), who functions effectively as the US Defense attaché. Based on People’s Dispatch account, “We are told that officials such as Alvarado, who are in close contact with the Peruvian military generals, gave them the greenlight to move against Castillo. It is being said that the last phone call that Castillo took before he left the presidential palace came from the US Embassy. It is likely he was warned to flee to the embassy of a friendly power, which made him appear weak.”

There is even more to this conspiracy, Keiko Fujimori was observed to have egged on the intentions for the coup ever since Castillo got into power. “She worked with men who have close ties with the US government and its intelligence agencies. A member of Fujimori’s team, Fernando Rospigliosi, for instance, had in 2005 tried to involve the US Embassy in Lima against Ollanta Humala, who contested in the 2006 Peruvian presidential election. Vladimiro Montesinos, a former CIA asset who is serving time in a prison in Peru, sent messages to Pedro Rejas, a former commander in Peru’s army, to go “to the US Embassy and talk with the embassy intelligence officer,.” to try and influence the 2021 Peruvian presidential election. Just before the election, the United States sent a former CIA agent, Lisa Kenna, as its ambassador to Lima. She met Peru’s Minister of Defense Gustavo Bobbio on December 6 and sent a denunciatory tweet against Castillo’s move to dissolve Congress the next day (on December 8, the US government—through Ambassador Kenna—recognized Peru’s new government after Castillo’s removal).”

So by reviewing the basic facts and accounts, we can safely and usurpingly say, the US “egged” on the Peruvian coup, with the coordination and execution of Fujimori and the Peruvian army, Congress, and others in state; all in the effort to protect US imperialist interest and to subvert the will of the people Pr. Castillo was representing. Although we don’t know how this crisis will end in Peru, we can say for sure this situation won’t turn out like the Chilean coup against Salvador Allende, since it seems the popular masses of Peru are not going to just let themselves fall back into fascism again; so if it means they must challenge the state in defense of democracy and freedom, then so be it.