“Peru is facing a chronic political crisis where it is very difficult to achieve political stability, there is great fragmentation,” says José Miguel Vivanco, a human rights activist and former director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. Earlier this Thursday, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, opined that Pedro Castillo he was the victim of a “soft coup” by Peru’s political elites and for this reason he was removed from the Executive. Castillo unconstitutionally dissolved Congress, according to experts on the subject, and installed an emergency government. Hours later, the Peruvian Congress dismissed him.
