Live from Peru-National Strike, Day 40

EPISODE: National Strike, Day 40: A
Conversation with Human Rights Activists in Peru


NOTE: This is a follow-up conversation to our February 2
Episode with Peruvian activists Anahi Durand and Eliana
Carlin. I have since visited Peru on a human rights
observation delegation with Mision de Solidaridad Internacional y
Derechos Humanos


Interpretation provided by Jill Clark Gollub


GUESTS:


Clau O'Brien Moscoso. She is an organizer with the Black
Alliance for Peace in the Haiti/Americas Team. Originally from
Barrios Altos, Lima, she grew up in New Jersey and now lives
between both countries.


Hiam Leyner Ayala Basilio: Leyner works in the legal area of
the organization Human Rights without Borders, Cusco - Peru. It
is a non-governmental organization that is part of the National
Coordinator of Human Rights of Peru, which works in the defense,
promotion and education of human rights in the region of Cusco,
also, the organization is carrying out legal processes related to
the criminalization of protesters by State repression.





BACKGROUND:


On December 7, 2022 a right-wing coup removed Perú’s President
Pedro Castillo Terrones from power. The predominantly poor
indigenous rural and Amazonian communities resoundingly and
overwhelmingly voted for Castillo, rejecting outright the
neoliberal regime installed by the previous governments. Violence
not seen since the Alberto Fujimori dictatorship (1990-2000), has
been led by the Peruvian Armed Forces, under orders of
coup-leader Dina Boluarte, the Fujimorista Fuerza Popular Party,
and other political factions. 


It’s been over 67 days since the parliamentary coup led by the
right-wing forces of Fuerza Popular with their puppet Dina
Boluarte, now commonly referred to as “usurper assassin,” at the
helm. (Black Agenda Report 15 February)





FOLLOW OUR GUESTS:


Clau O’Brien Moscoso


https://twitter.com/PiolinSghost


Black Alliance for Peace


https://www.facebook.com/BlackAllianceforPeace


https://www.instagram.com/blackallianceforpeace/


https://twitter.com/Blacks4Peace


Derechos Humanos sin Fronteras-Cusco


https://www.facebook.com/derechossinfronteras.pe


https://www.instagram.com/derechossinfronteras/


https://twitter.com/dhsfcusco 


Misión de Solidaridad Internacional y Derechos Humanos


https://www.facebook.com/MisionDdhh


https://www.instagram.com/misionddhh/


https://twitter.com/MisionDdhh





ADDITIONAL LINKS:


Black Agenda Report: Report from Lima, Peru


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Peru
National Protest Advances to Lima  


Plaza 2 de Mayo, Lima (February 9, 2023 - Marcos Sierras,
Photographer)


Juliaca to Cusco - Manuel Ortiz, Photographer


Short Delegation Synopsis (Lima & Cusco Visits)


Mision de Solidarida Internacional y Derechos Humanos


Preliminary Report: Peru February 2023 (Spanish)





OUR BROADCAST PARTNERS:


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular
Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace
Haiti/Americas Team; CODEPINK: Women For Peace; Common
Frontiers; Council on Hemispheric Affairs; Friends of Latin
America; IRTF - The InterReligious Task Force on Central America;
Massachusetts Peace Action; and Task Force on the America