Saturday, February 5, 2022

Peru leader reshuffles Cabinet for third time in six month

 Peru has been under high political instability in the last years, with 5 presidents in five years, and the new one doesn't seem to be fixing things. Pedro Castillo, whose position was already weak when he rose to power is now in a critique position. He became president under accusations of electoral fraud, representing a semi-communist party and without the numbers in congress. 

Since he became president only 6 months ago, he had appointed 3 prime ministers with 3 whole cabinets. The first one had to resign under accusations of apology to terrorism and corruption (20,000 $ were found in a restroom in Congress). The second one resigned because Pedro Castillo wasn't collaborating on addressing corruption within the police and the military.

There has already been an attempt to take out the president in a process similar to the impeachment, and there is no doubt they will try again.

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By Javier Isasi Serrano

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