Peru’s new president faces a divided nation, and determined opposition

Pedro Castillo, the rural school teacher and next president of Peru, rose to power on a populist wave against the country’s political and economic elites. His outsider status could be his biggest vulnerability. The World’s Latin America correspondent reports.

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