Recently a source told Marco Sifuentes, a journalist from Peru, that on two occasions when he met with Dina Boluarte, the country’s president, she wore a different Rolex. Boluarte has spoken of hailing from a modest background, and didn’t seem likely to have earned enough money in her various government jobs to afford such luxury […]
Political instability, protests and polarisation are the greatest threats to freedom of the press and journalists in a year that ended with a failed coup by former President Pedro Castillo.
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Partisan election coverage and rising hostility against the press contributed to a decline in trust in the media in a year in which Peru became the country with the world’s highest COVID-19 death rate.