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CONTINUED HEADLINE: Peru's Political Crisis Deepens as President's Approval Hits 2% GUEST NAME: Evan Ellis SUMMARY: Peru's President Dina Boluarte faces 2-3% approval amid crime and corruption. The 2026 election features candidates including Keiko Fujimo

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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CONTINUED
HEADLINE: Peru's Political Crisis Deepens as President's Approval Hits 2%
GUEST NAME: Evan Ellis
SUMMARY: Peru's President Dina Boluarte faces 2-3% approval amid crime and corruption. The 2026 election features candidates including Keiko Fujimori. China dominates Peru's economy through mining investments and the Chancay port. Brazil's Bolsonaro received 27-year sentence for alleged assassination plot against Lula, polarizing society and pushing Brazil toward BRICS nations.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA

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I'm John Baxter with the New World Report. Professor Avenelis is traveling. He's on Lima,

0:28.2

Peru's time, but he's very generous to speak of these matters across the continent.

0:35.7

We go right now to Argentina, where there's good news. And I want to

0:39.8

emphasize it because there's other kinds of news from Argentina as well, ever since the charismatic

0:44.2

and spontaneous Malay took the chief executive. Argentina's economy expands 6.3% in the second

0:53.1

quarter. Is that good news, Professor?

0:56.3

It's absolutely good news, John, and it reflects really the difficult but, you know,

1:02.7

effectiveness of the bitter medicine that the way has imposed in order to try to get the

1:08.7

economic problems caused by the policies of the previous current

1:13.0

government under control.

1:15.0

The bitter medicine, in terms of doing deep cuts in spending on transfer payments to the

1:22.6

provinces, something that has really made the provinces up in arms because it's put problems on them. Deep cuts

1:29.6

in the federal government, a slash in the exchange rate, which momentarily caused significant

1:36.2

inflation, but now has gotten inflation under control efforts that Argentina took to get a new

1:42.5

financing package from the International Monetary Fund to stabilize

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