Peru’s Next Generation of Leaders Is Leaving
Amid political chaos and economic downturn, more young Peruvians are going and staying abroad, threatening the country’s future.
Correction appended below. Peru is losing its talented young people. According to a poll published in September by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, a well-known think tank based in Lima, 60% of those between the ages of 18 to 24, and 51% of people between 25 and 39, say they have plans to leave the country in the next three years. It seems that Peru is yet another Latin American nation whose youth have decided to seek a future elsewhere. These numbers have confirmed a trend that I had noticed for some time already in my personal life. I left Lima for the United Kingdom for the...
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