Tag Archives: Coup d’etat

Peruvian President Ousted, AMLO Blames ‘Elite’

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just hours before it was to begin debates over his impeachment, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Wednesday, Dec. 7, announced the immediate dissolution of his country’s national congress and called for new legislative elections to draft a constitution, only to be ousted from power by that very body. Members of the Peruvian Congress immediately responded by calling

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The Last Coup d’État in Mexico, 100 Years Hence

By RICARDO CASTILLO At the private club called the House of Coahuila, located in the lovely southern Mexico City’s Coyoacán municipality in Churubusco, right across the street from the Interventions Museum, every May 21, we commemorate the death by way of assassination in 1920 of Coahuila-born Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Actually, many enthusiasts even organize trips into the Puebla mountains

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