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3 days agoPeru's Congress appoints Jose Maria Balcazar as president, the eighth in a decade
Jose Maria Balcazar is the new president of Peru. Congress determined this on Wednesday night in an extraordinary session following the censure of Jose Jeri over his suspicious ties to Chinese businessmen and a group of women who were allegedly favored with government contracts. Peru now has a new head of state who was not chosen by popular vote, but by a parliamentary one.
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