Unbeknown, it seems, to most people in Peru and the US (considering the paucity of media coverage in both countries),
. The plenary session of Peru’s corrupt US-backed Congress last Thursday (May 18)
the entry of US troops onto Peruvian soil with the ostensible purpose of carrying out “cooperation activities” with Peru’s armed forces and national police.
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by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador, who is currently person non grata in Peru, suggests it could be around 700.
Peru’s security forces, including 140,000 mobilised soldiers, have
a brutal crackdown that culminated in the deaths of approximately 70 people. The new US forces will be joining them, possibly as soon as next week.
Is this the first step of the US government and military’s stepping-up-the-game process? The US seems set on
for the 21st century.