Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was ousted from office in the early hours of Oct. 10, in a cold coup d’état disguised as a corruption and crime destabilization orchestrated by Washington and London. Boluarte has been in the cross-hairs, especially since the Nov. 14, 2024 inauguration of the Chancay mega-port, which was jointly built by Peru and China, and which was the first of a major series of Belt and Road Initiative projects designed to bring all of South America into the infrastructure boom underway in the Global South.
The Boluarte government’s failure to stop a (very real) crime wave in the country was used as the pretext for a Congressional vote ousting her, charging her with “ongoing moral incapacity.” She was replaced by José Jerí, the head of the Congress, who called for new presidential elections in April 2026, the scheduled end of Boluarte’s term.
