Analysis: Peru's Castillo plays whack-a-mole with crises as impeachment threat looms


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  • Monday, 06 Dec 2021

FILE PHOTO: Pedro Castillo, president of Peru, arrives for the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2021. John Minchillo/Pool via REUTERS

LIMA (Reuters) - Political crisis in brewing in Peru - yet again.

The country's leftist President Pedro Castillo faces a likely vote this week in a fragmented and notoriously fickle Congress on whether to launch impeachment proceedings that could push him out of power just months into his administration.

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