I think it's the Venezuela example that has many worried
Castillo’s plan is a copy-and-paste version of the Chavista manual, which has been used in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador: You win elections, use your political honeymoon to replace the constitution, then enact a new one that allows you to stay in power indefinitely.
Have a read of Chapter 2 of the Free Peru Party Policy Document,
“Toward a New Political Constitution,” says that once the party attains power, it will draft a new constitution, a document that will pave the way for a “sovereign” country that no longer will be “subjugated” to “the government of the United States” and international financial institutions.
Other Chapters Include The party document’s first chapter, “About the Party’s Nature,” says that it is “a leftist socialist organization,” adding that “to be leftist, one has to embrace the Marxist theory” and Marxism-Leninism.
The third chapter, “New State Economic Order,” says that multinational firms will have to pay 80 percent of their profits to the Peruvian government. If they refuse, Peru may go forward with their “nationalization.”
In the fourth chapter, “A New Public School System Aimed at Liberation,” the party calls for a new school system that will form citizens who “will be autonomous and revolutionary.”In its sixth chapter, “About Transportation and Media Policies,” the document says that Peru’s high concentration of news media in the hands of a few private companies “must not only be fought against, but prohibited.
A subchapter, “Lenin and Fidel,” concludes that Russian Revolution leader “[Vladimir] Lenin was right in saying that the true freedom of the press in a society will only be possible once it liberates itself from the yoke of capital.” It later quotes a similar statement by late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.”
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