Peru on the Brink of Political Meltdown

Just two weeks after becoming Peru’s president, Pedro Castillo’s inexperience, “and his appointment to senior government positions of Marxist hard-liners, some implicated in criminality, have left this country that went through three presidents in one month last year once again on the brink of a political meltdown,” the Washington Post reports.

“The chaos has sounded the starting gun on an existential battle between the executive and an antagonistic, conservative-dominated legislature, with increasing talk of either the impeachment of the president or the dissolution of congress.”