Can Pedro Castillo deliver on his promises of reform? Experts are skeptical.
With his historic inauguration, Pedro Castillo put one crisis to rest and turned his attention to numerous others: foremost among them, how to repair a healthcare system devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic and overhaul a brittle and uneven economy that has failed many Peruvians.
La elección de Pedro Castillo en Perú: de la fragmentación a la polarización, ¿o quizás una reforma centrista?
¿Cómo surgió esta angustiosa elección? ¿Y qué significa la aparente, y extremadamente ajustada, victoria de Castillo para Perú?
Peru’s election of Pedro Castillo: from fragmentation to polarization—or perhaps centrist reform?
How did Peru’s agonizing choice between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori come about? And what is Castillo’s extremely narrow apparent victory—by a mere 0.42 percent of total votes cast—likely to mean for Peru?
Peruvian democracy faces its biggest challenge yet
On April 11, 2021, Peru achieved a dubious distinction that has yet to receive much public attention: for the first time in the history of global electoral democracy, the total of blank and null votes exceeded the amount of votes received by any single candidate running to serve as a country’s head of state.
Peru is out of the emergency room, but the prognosis remains guarded
The doctor’s orders are now calling for investigations into cases of human rights violations committed during the citizen protests, the suspension of the selection of members of the Constitutional Court until the next Congress is seated in July 2021, and international monitoring and dialogue between stakeholders who are maintaining the current, fragile stability.
El Perú salió de la sala de emergencias, pero mantiene un pronóstico reservado
Las órdenes del médico ahora piden la investigación de los casos de violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas durante las protestas ciudadanas, la suspensión de la selección de los miembros de la Corte Constitucional hasta que se asiente el próximo Congreso en julio de 2021, y el seguimiento y diálogo internacional entre los actores que están manteniendo la frágil estabilidad actual.
Why Peru’s soft coup failed
Notoriously weak political parties are fueling Peru’s chronic instability. But they also stopped Manuel Merino and his allies from uniting to hold onto power.
El Desafío Multidimensional de Perú – Parte 2: la crisis económica, inseguridad pública, y crimen organizado
Los desafíos de seguridad de Perú varían desde la expansión de la producción de coca, la minería ilegal y las actividades madereras, hasta una amenaza terrorista pequeña pero persistente, un nuevo centro criminal emergente en la frontera trinacional con Brasil y Colombia, y una creciente inseguridad pública en el contexto de la salud y crisis socioeconómica creada por la pandemia COVID-19.