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 Fujimor
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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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.
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| 0:29.1 | Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, reporting from |
| 0:33.9 | Lima, Peru. He's on the road for business. We go, however, to headlines that |
| 0:39.1 | tell a story that needs filling in. Brazil's Bolsonaro discharged from hospital. Test show early |
| 0:46.4 | type of skin cancer. This is the result, I believe, of keen attention for his health, has been disruption of the former |
| 0:55.7 | President's health for some time, stemming from, I'm told, the attack on him in the first |
| 1:01.5 | campaign for president. He was stabbed in the abdomen, and things have never settled down |
| 1:06.9 | for him since. He does not look to be a vigorous man, but at the same time, he's been condemned now to, |
| 1:13.6 | I believe, 27 years in detention for leading an assassination plot at the last election against |
| 1:21.4 | Lula de Silva. I stopped there, Professor, because I don't know where this is going. Half the country voted fervently |
| 1:28.9 | for Bolsonaro. They're not at peace with this condemnation in the courts. There was one member |
| 1:36.5 | of the court who voted not guilty. The rest, I think it was a five-man court, overwhelmingly |
| 1:42.4 | condemned him and sentenced him to jail, so he's not |
| 1:45.2 | just not going to run for presidency again. It's going to spend the balance of the remainder |
| 1:49.9 | of his life in detention. Is this gesture? Is this theater? Is this to be enforced? |
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