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...Boluarte, a former lawyer with little political experience before she was elected vice-president in 2021, succeeded hard-left president Pedro Castillo in December 2022 after Castillo was impeached and jailed...
...“People here see her as a traitor because at first she had said that, if Castillo were to go, she would go with him,” the governor says....
...Following Castillo’s impeachment by Congress, power passed to Boluarte, a former provincial lawyer who had not held elected office until she stood as vice-president on the ticket of Castillo’s Marxist-inspired...
...right-hand man of Dina Boluarte, the inexperienced vice-president who succeeded Castillo....
...“The scenario I see more is Pedro Castillo in Peru,” said Negri, referring to the hard-left leader’s impeachment after he attempted to close congress and rule by decree last year....
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...Michael Shifter, former president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, criticised “a lack of backbone and steel in taking a stand on what was unquestionably a self-coup [by Castillo]”....
...As Castillo’s vice-president, Dina Boluarte swiftly condemned his attempted power grab and was sworn in as his successor later in the day in accordance with the constitution, after Congress impeached Castillo...
...“It was all familiar faces, and that’s a good thing,” he says, echoing Castillo’s sentiments....
...Violent unrest roiled the country earlier this year after Congress removed leftwing president Pedro Castillo following his attempt to seize extra-constitutional powers....
...Castillo is faring even worse, as he fights corruption investigations and repeated attempts to impeach him. His approval rating is just 16 per cent....
...Michael Widmer, commodity strategist at Bank of America, said the latest flare-up in Peru’s longstanding issues with the mining industry made it more likely that “you have some volatility in the system”...
...Peru ousts president after ‘attempted coup’ Lawmakers removed Pedro Castillo yesterday after he tried to shut down congress before an impeachment vote....
...LatAm editor Michael Stott says Castillo’s attempted coup “was as incompetent as his attempts at government” and masks a deeper problem with Peru’s political system....
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...A student of art, he learnt to drape and sew at Cristóbal Balenciaga’s salon in Madrid and later at Lanvin under Antonio del Castillo in Paris before opening his own house in 1965 in New York....
...But after taking office, Castillo toned down his message and picked Pedro Francke, an academic economist who briefly worked for the World Bank, as his finance minister....
...Now, Peru’s downtrodden millions see in Castillo a ray of hope....
...Years of political instability, the world’s highest coronavirus death rate, and the recent election of leftwing President Pedro Castillo have plunged Peru into crisis....
...Last week, Francke and recently elected hard-left president Pedro Castillo spent time in the US speaking to nervous investors....
...Part of Castillo’s appeal stems from popular anger at Peru’s failure to handle the pandemic effectively....
...Pedro Castillo, a primary school teacher and smallholder from a remote mountain village, won with the slogan “No more poor people in a rich country”....
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