No part of the political spectrum from Right to Left is immune from the addiction to power. This truism has recently come home to roost for Peruvians who have spent decades fighting the landowning oligarchy’s fraudulent grip on political life.
Peru’s Congress is controlled by a coalition of rightwing parties who recently chose Dina Boluarte as their new leader after the overthrow of incumbent Pedro Castillo on 7 December 2022. Castillo had tried to dissolve the hostile Congress in an attempt to head off a third impeachment attempt – a constitutional coup followed by self-coup, which his own lawyer described as ‘political suicide’.
