by Daniel Sandoval Vasquez | Oct 19, 2025 | Arizona State University, Featured
When Peru’s Congress voted unanimously on October 10, 2025, to remove President Dina Boluarte for “permanent moral incapacity,” the decision was framed as a constitutional act. In reality, it exposed the depth of Peru’s institutional decay...
by Jose Casavilla Calvo | Dec 15, 2022 | Sabanci University
Recently, on the 7th of December, Pedro Castillo former president of Peru attempted to give a self-coup d’état. The Peruvian congress held a vote in which it was decided whether the congress would remove the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, from office. To...
by Cristi V | Apr 5, 2022 | Rollins College
Since the year 2000, Peru has had the longest period of democracy in the country’s history. As a Latin American nation, the South American country struggled to achieve a stable democracy for years. The past 21 years have been synonymous with economic growth and...
by Allyse Pratt | Dec 9, 2020 | Williams College
We’ve all experienced the agonizingly slow process of democratic bureaucracy; we lament the lines, the paperwork, and the drudgery that is required to get anything done. But every now and then, a change happens—and it happens fast. In the span of a week, Peru...
by Gina Dematteo | Nov 23, 2020 | Suffolk University
With three presidents in one week, and a history of political corruption, can Peru’s fragile democracy stay afloat? In a recent unfolding of events, Peru’s citizens have taken to the streets in response to the obstruction of justice and removal of former president,...
