Peru’s Democracy Is Dying Pedro Castillo promised leftist reform. His incompetency has left his country’s democracy on its last legs.

Castillo sits in a dark room beside other people, with a slight frown on his face. Peruvian President Pedro Castillo attends a plenary session of the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 9. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES JUNE 27, 2022, 3:27 PM When Pedro Castillo, the dark horse candidate representing the self-described Marxist-Leninist Free Peru party, was elected president last June, many Peruvians warned that he would turn the country into another Venezuela. His party manifesto was replete with attacks on the media and calls for nationalizing the mining and energy…Read more …