Peru Ousts President Amid Crime Surge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Ms. Boluarte became president after her predecessor, Pedro Castillo, the Marxist party leader for whom she was serving as vice president, was impeached and arrested in 2022 for attempting to seize control of Congress and the judiciary.
55% : Later that year, Mexico granted asylum to his family, prompting the Peruvian government to expel the Mexican ambassador.
50% : In April, the former first lady Nadine Heredia, sought asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima after she and her husband, the former president Ollanta Humala, were sentenced to 15 years for laundering nearly $3 million -- mostly from the Brazilian firm Odebrecht -- to fund Mr. Humala's 2006 and 2011 campaigns.
41% : "She thought that after the initial protests, she had free rein, with a Congress uninterested in exercising political oversight," he added.
35% : As lawmakers prepared to debate Ms. Boluarte's impeachment, TV crews and small crowds of protesters gathered outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in Lima, where she was rumored to be considering asylum once she lost presidential immunity.

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