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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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Dascher, the New World Report, with Professor Abenalis. He is in Lima, Peru, on the road, |
| 0:29.0 | but we look to Venezuela. Professor, the last week has not resolved in any extent the challenge of the illegitimate President Maduro to his own people, Venezuela, but also to the United States. |
| 0:45.2 | All I have is that the flotilla that we've documented the last weeks is still at sea. |
| 0:51.3 | It's very powerful. |
| 0:52.7 | It has an air element that is overwhelming in addition to the |
| 0:57.0 | possibilities of landing Marines. However, I'm told that there is a variety of intervention |
| 1:05.3 | that would be much more attractive, which is to allow the then as wellan authorities to turn Maduro over to law enforcement |
| 1:14.0 | as the head of a drug cartel that's led to the death of many people. That would be a peaceful |
| 1:19.9 | end to a conflict that has cost a great deal of the people of Venezuela. Is it a possibility, |
| 1:25.8 | or am I being utopian? |
| 1:33.1 | It's a remote possibility, John, depending on who wants to negotiate with the United States in pursuit of their own self-interest and anticipation that the United States could do something |
| 1:39.6 | more direct. What I see happening right now with the determination of President Trump's government |
| 1:45.9 | to not allow to continue something that I think was part of the legacy of the Dudo's |
| 1:52.5 | continuation, one of the things that was unfinished business during his first presidency. |
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