Peru’s Castillo probably not a Lula, but maybe a Morales

The business elite and the whole middle class are in a flat panic with the election of new president Pedro Castillo, who has a steep learning curve ahead.

Peru's new president Pedro Castillo is clever, charismatic, and he may do some good. He certainly couldn’t do worse than most of his predecessors, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Braian Reyna Guerrero via Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 3, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Peru holds the current record for revolving presidents (three came and went in a month last November), for coronavirus deaths (almost 6,000 per million), and for the youngest-looking president (seen from afar, under his trademark 20-gallon straw hat, he looks like a 13-year-old boy). ...

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