Peru’s Congress tentatively endorsed a plan to hold early elections in 2024 in an attempt to defuse a national political crisis after lawmakers ousted President Pedro Castillo.
“Don’t be blind,” Boluarte said over the weekend, slamming lawmakers for not listening to voters’ demands. “Look at the people and take action in line with what they are asking.”
On Tuesday, Boluarte’s government expelled Mexico’s ambassador, giving him 72 hours to leave the country, in protest of what it said was López Obrador’s repeated and “unacceptable interference” in Peru’s internal affairs. Castillo, a political novice who lived in a two-story adobe home in the Andean highlands before moving to the presidential palace, eked out a narrow victory in elections last year that rocked Peru’s political establishment andbetween residents of the vibrant capital, Lima, and the long-neglected countryside.
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