[President Kuczynski] has a long-standing relationship with Soros and his family. More than 20 years ago, he helped Soros double his investment in a Peruvian brewery, Compania Nacional de Cerveza. He helped Soros’ brother, Paul, secure rights to mining deals at the Peru-Ecuador border. And he was helpful with Newmont Mines, which owns controversy-racked Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in Latin America, located in Cajamarca, Peru. Soros has owned significant shares of Newmont stock. PPK won the presidency a year ago by a very slim margin against a conservative Catholic candidate, Keiko Fujimori, 42. However, Fujimori has the majority in the Peru Parliament, where she can block Kuczynski’s agenda...The church is protesting:
On June 1, “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” deployed some 1,500 banners across bridges and major intersections to remind the elite, including President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the people “refuse to surrender.”The article mentions that the priest leading the protests comes from Ayacucho, formerly the center of the Shining Path movement. = = = = = Okay, let's do some more Googlestreeting. Is Ayacucho similar to Valparaiso de Goias in Brazil? Lots of walls, precise infrastructure designed around the walls? No dogs and cats? Here's the main plaza. Looks okay. Got chola, got Peru. New building, some visible infrastructure. Got brakes? Got braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa YAAAAAA! Well, so much for the precise infrastructure. All of the electrical connections look like this. Casual, to put it nicely. No trash bollards. Got dogs. Got police. Despite the collapse and casualness, the place looks fairly safe. People are strolling around, and I don't see any groups of threatening or loitering youths. (UNLIKE right here in Spokane!) The blue police Cushman probably explains the peace. These blue scooters are EVERYWHERE. Just about every block has one or two. This pic says it all. Supersteep terrain, frequent earthquakes, 400-year-old buildings cantilevered over the streets, no infrastructure, no maintenance. Got fatalism? I need to watch the Soros conflict closely. Looks like a fault line ready to tumble one way or the other. The nation is governed by the literal and actual Soros family, and the population is inclined to reject Soros.
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