Orinoco Tribune Editor: There Was a Coup Against Pedro Castillo in Peru
Rodríguez remarked that the appointment of Vice President Dina Boluarte as the de facto president is a measure adopted by the Peruvian Congress to disguise the coup d’état. “Naming Dina Boluarte as the de facto president is a halfway solution between Pedro Castillo and José William Zapata, the president of Congress, who is a right-wing military man accused of corruption and drug trafficking and what have you,” he opined. “So, I believe they chose Dina Boluarte to prevent greater tension or political instability in Peru… In fact, José William Zapata was the president of Peru for some minutes and then transferred power to Dina Boluarte. This was all that was behind the coup in Peru.”
Some notes, to self, on José Williams, Hernando de Soto, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Omidyar Network, & Atlas Network:
In 2020, Williams was announced as part of Go on Country – Social Integration Party’s congressional list for the 2021 general election. In addition, he participated in Hernando de Soto’s presidential campaign as the technical team’s defense and security advisor.
During the presidential campaign, de Soto publicly announced a Shadow Cabinet, in which he included Williams as Shadow Defense Minister.
Although de Soto was not elected to the presidency, Williams was elected to a seat in the Peruvian Congress. He is currently the party’s parliamentary spokesperson, appointed by de Soto.
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Hernando Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto /dəˈsoʊtoʊ/; born June 2, 1941) is a prominent Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. His work on the developing world has earned him praise worldwide by numerous heads of state, particularly for his publication The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path. He is the current president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), a think tank devoted to promoting economic development in developing countries located in Lima, Peru.
In Peru, de Soto’s advisory has been recognized as inspiring the economic guidelines—including the loosening of economic regulation, the introduction of austerity measures and the utilization of neoliberal policies—that were ultimately adopted by the government of Alberto Fujimori and established in the 1993 Constitution of Peru. The policies prescribed by de Soto resulted with Peru becoming macro-economically stable following the period of price controls and increased regulation established during the Lost Decade. De Soto would go on to support Alberto’s daughter, Keiko Fujimori, serving as an advisor during her presidential campaigns. De Soto worked closely with various Peruvian governments, even serving as a negotiator for the Peru-United States Free Trade Agreement. After years of speculation, de Soto ran for the Peruvian presidency in the 2021 presidential election, placing fourth in an atomized race of 18 nominees.
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The Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) is a think tank based in Lima devoted to the promotion of property rights in developing countries. It was established in 1981 by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. The ILD works with developing countries to implement property and business rights reforms that provide the legal tools and institutions required for citizens to participate in the formal economy.
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At the time of de Soto’s return, neoliberal policy was moving from the fringes of economic theory to mainstream practice. De Soto met with Friedrich Hayek, a free market proponent who helped create the Mont Pelerin Society, shortly after his return in 1979. After making connections with Hayek, de Soto was acquainted with Hayek collaborator Sir Antony Fisher, a British businessman who created the Atlas Network, a nonprofit libertarian umbrella group that consolidated funds and research from businesses in the United States and Europe in order to create neoliberal organizations in developing countries.
With the help of Fisher and the Atlas Network, de Soto created the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in 1981, one of the first neoliberal organizations in Latin America. De Soto would later state “Anthony gave us enormous amounts of information and advice on how to get organized. … It was on the basis of his vision that we designed the structure of the ILD”. In 1984, de Soto received further assistance from the United States president Ronald Reagan’s administration, with the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) providing it first-ever grant to ILD, including funding and education for advertising campaigns. In 2003, the CIPE would later describe the ILD as being one of its most successful programs. The ILD would then seek popular support in Peru by making informal housing their main concern.
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With Omidyar Network’s support, ILD will expand to new countries, strengthen advocacy efforts, and increase global awareness of the vital role of property and business rights in bringing life-altering benefits to poor and marginalized communities around the world.
Institute for Liberty and Democracy | Omidyar Network
As of 2005, Atlas Network had received $440,000 from ExxonMobil, and has received at least $825,000 USD from the tobacco company Philip Morris. Of Atlas Network partners, 57% in the United States had received funding from the tobacco industry. Atlas Network has received funding from Koch family foundations. Corporate funding accounted for less than 2% of Atlas Network’s total donations in 2020. Atlas Network partners have received tobacco-related funding in the past, although “fossil-fuel and tobacco interests” have provided less than 1% of Atlas’ funding over the last two decades.
Atlas Network – Wikipedia
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