While democratic elections are held regularly in Peru, critics say that the results often have more to do with settling scores and politicians getting rich than installing effective governments.
President of Congress Jose Williams, left, and Sen. Jose Cevasco, place the presidential sash on Dina Boluarte as she is named Peru’s new president in Lima on Dec. 7, 2022.
The two sides “didn’t establish a minimal level of dialogue or trust,” Levitsky said. “It got to a point where both Congress and Castillo viewed this as, ‘Kill or be killed.’” Peru has undergone “wrenching political U-turns” for decades, transitioning between military rule, democracy and authoritarianism — with little chance for political parties to evolve and mature beyond crass transactionalism, said Michael McKinley, a retired career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Lima from 2007 to 2010.
and saw the cratering of an economy long sustained by commodity exports. Peru, a major mining nation, is the world’s second-largest exporter of copper, after neighboring Chile. Peru’s political party structure, she noted, based on personalities rather than policies, beliefs or even ideology, can lead to a “free-for-all” at the ballot box.
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