According to reports, Castillo's final phone call before leaving the presidential mansion came from the US Embassy. This is how the CIA plotted the Peru coup.
On the last day of his administration as president of Peru, December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo was seated in his office. Spreadsheets reviewed by his attorneys demonstrated that Castillo would defeat a congressional removal motion. The Congress was planning to challenge Castillo for the third time, but his attorneys and advisers, including former prime minister Anibal Torres, assured him that he had an edge over the Congress in surveys (his approval rating had risen to 31 percent, while that of the Congress was just about 10 percent).
For the previous year, Castillo had been under intense pressure from an oligarchy that despised this former teacher. The unexpected announcement that he would "temporarily dissolve the Congress" and "[establish] an exceptional emergency government" was made to the media on December 7. This ...
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