After Pedro Castillo, What’s Next for Peru?
President Dina Boluarte will confront a familiar set of problems: a hostile Congress and pressing socio-economic challenges.
She has no political party, no natural allies, very little political support, and is tasked with governing a country that has already had seven presidents in the last seven years—and looks unlikely to show greater patience this time around. That’s the situation facing Peru’s new President Dina Boluarte, after Pedro Castillo’s illegal move to dissolve Congress resulted in his impeachment and detention by police on December 7, elevating Boluarte to the presidency. The 60-year-old lawyer and civil servant from Apurímac, a rural area in Peru’s south, was elected as Castillo’s...
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