After 16 months of corruption charges and protests, Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo found himself behind bars on Dec. 7.
The dizzying turn of events followed a day of tense political power struggles and an attempted coup d’etat by the ousted head of state.
A few hours before his arrest, Castillo addressed the Peruvian people in a televised broadcast, saying he intended to dissolve congress until a new assembly could be elected.
In the same speech, he said a new congress would make constitutional amendments, and a mandatory 10 p.m. citizen curfew would go into effect immediately.
On Dec. 8, Peruvians awoke to find Castillo being held in Lima’s Barbadillo prison. Former vice president Dina Boluarte now stands at the nation’s helm after being sworn in by congress mere hours after Castillo’s decree….