Pedro Castillo Isn’t Out of Danger
By
Andrea Moncada
Peru’s president survived Congress’s attempt to impeach him, but only for now.
On the evening of December 7, Pedro Castillo probably felt something close to relief. After hours of deliberation, Peru’s Congress voted against initiating impeachment proceedings to remove him from the presidency, two weeks after a group of right-wing parliamentarians first presented the motion. Until December 6, the situation looked bleak for the embattled Peruvian president, and not just because of the aggressive opposition he has faced from virtually all other political sectors — including from within his own party, Peru Libre — since the first day of his administration. As a...
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