Pedro Castillo, Peru’s new president, tries to seem less left-wing
Investors are not entirely convinced
WHEN HE TOOK office as Peru’s president on July 28th, the bicentenary of the country’s independence, Pedro Castillo declared that he would not govern from the presidential palace. Built on the site of the house of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador, the palace is a “colonial symbol”, he said, which he would turn into a museum. Three months later President Castillo is quietly living and working there after all. It is a sign that whatever Peru’s hard-left president might like, the country is not in the throes of revolution.
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