A propensity to weaponise constitutional checks and balances by the Peruvian Congress and the executive has taken its latest toll in the impeachment and removal on Friday of outgoing president Dina Boluarte, the first woman head of state in the South American nation. Jose Jeri, head of Peru’s unicameral legislature, who was sworn in as the nation’s interim President, has become the country’s seventh head of state since 2016. Ahead of a general election in April 2026, legislators evidently decided to distance themselves from the malleable Boluarte, whose rule was mired in controversy, starting with the death of 49 people during the violent unrest in the wake of the ignominious exit of her predecessor in December 2022. The prevalence of rampant violent crime,........

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