Media contributions
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Title Peru: A Two-Hour Coup with Several Years in the Making. Some Thoughts and Lessons Media name/outlet Financial Express Country/Territory India Date 12/9/22 Description Even for a country used to political crises, December 7 was unusual in Peru. In the morning, the (then) Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced the closing of Congress, the intervention of the judiciary, and the imposition of a state of emergency in the country. A text-manual coup. Less than two hours after that, the Peruvian Congress swiftly voted 101-6 to remove Castillo. Lawmakers applied a constitutional provision that allows Congress to declare the presidency vacant when the President has proven to be “morally incapable” of fulfilling his duties (a provision whose application has been controversial in the last years). A few minutes after that vote, the police arrested Castillo on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. By then, the coup was over. It lasted two hours. URL https://perma.cc/5G9J-FFAD Persons Fernando Loayza Jordán