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Protests in Peru as Castillo Ousted After Dissolving Congress
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0:59Now PlayingVice President Dina Boluarte was sworn in Wednesday as Peru’s next president after Congress voted out President Pedro Castillo shortly after he dissolved the legislative body.
The 60--year-old lawyer took the oath of office and became the first female leader in the more than 200-year history of the independent republic.
Her swearing in capped hours of uncertainty as both the president and Congress appeared to exercise their constitutional powers to do away with each other.
Boluarte said her first order of business would be to address government corruption, ostensibly what felled Castillo.
“There has been an attempted coup ... that has not found an echo in the institutions, nor in the street,” Boluarte said. She called for a political truce to install a national unity government.
“What I ask for is a space, a time to rescue the country,” she said.
Bilingual in Spanish and Quechua, Boluarte was elected as vice president on the presidential ticket that brought Castillo to power July 28, 2021. During Castillo’s brief administration, Boluarte was minister of development and social inclusion.
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