A Crisis in Peru Signals Trouble for South America
The Daily22 Joulu 2022

A Crisis in Peru Signals Trouble for South America

A few weeks ago, when President Pedro Castillo of Peru attempted an illegal power grab and ended up in jail, the response was unexpected: Thousands of protesters took to the streets to support him, and some died.

Why does such a divisive leader have such fierce backing? And what does the upheaval in Peru tell us about the way the political winds are blowing in South America?

Guest: Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times.

Background reading:

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jaksot(2793)

Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury, but the government there said that just 64 people had been killed by the storm. The hundreds of bodies showing up at morgues across the island tol...

9 Helmi 201829min

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 20, flooding neighborhoods and villages and cutting power to 3.4 million people. More than four months later, much of the island...

8 Helmi 201819min

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018

When Republicans handed out large tax cuts to corporations, most economists rejected lawmakers’ claims that the benefits would trickle down to working Americans. So why do many companies seem to be gi...

7 Helmi 201821min

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

The Republican push to release a classified memo has brought attention to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and to the long battle to determine when national security concerns outweigh civil ...

6 Helmi 201823min

Monday, Feb. 5, 2018

Monday, Feb. 5, 2018

President Trump has claimed credit for a booming U.S. economy. But is it actually booming, and to what extent is he responsible? Guest: Peter S. Goodman, who writes about the economy for The New York ...

5 Helmi 201821min

Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

Almost from the moment that he was appointed to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has been cast by environmentalists as an ideologue on a mission to destroy the very agency he run...

2 Helmi 201831min

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018

Republicans insist that their push to release a secret memo that is said to question the conduct of the F.B.I. and the Justice Department in the early stages of the Russia investigation is not an atte...

1 Helmi 201822min

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

In his first State of the Union address, President Trump left behind divisive rhetoric and called for one American family. But hidden in his many stories of everyday American heroes was a deeply natio...

31 Tammi 201822min

Suosittua kategoriassa Politiikka ja uutiset

uutiscast
aikalisa
rss-ootsa-kuullut-tasta
politiikan-puskaradio
ootsa-kuullut-tasta-2
tervo-halme
viisupodi
rss-podme-livebox
rss-asiastudio
rikosmyytit
the-ulkopolitist
et-sa-noin-voi-sanoo-esittaa
otetaan-yhdet
radio-antro
rss-sanna-ukkola-show-verkkouutiset
io-techin-tekniikkapodcast
aihe
rss-tasta-on-kyse-ivan-puopolo-verkkouutiset
rss-kyselytunti
rss-tekkipodi