The Political Crisis in Peru
On December 7, Peruvian president Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Peru\u2019s Congress and implement a state of emergency. His dictatorship lasted only a few hours before he was impeached by Congress and arrested\u2014making him the fifth president to leave office in Peru in five years. Since Castillo\u2019s arrest, Peru\u2019s crisis has spiraled further, with protests in the streets and a violent response by the police and military that has left 25 people dead.
To understand what\u2019s going on right now in Peru, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with Rodrigo Barrenechea, a 2022/23 Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and an assistant professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad Cat\xf3lica del Uruguay. They talked about how and why Peru ended up here, the fragile state of the country\u2019s democracy, and why Rodrigo thinks that Castillo\u2019s attempted dissolution of Congress was \u201cthe most ill-planned coup d\u2019etat in Latin American history.\u201d
You can read Rodrigo\u2019s article on the crisis in the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio (in Spanish) here.
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