Some see him as a new Nayib Bukele, but he avoids the comparisons. Relentless, he appears at night during prison raids or the arrest of criminals. He is José Jerí, the media-savvy millennial president of Peru who declared war on crime.
Aged 39 and very active on social media, Jerí served as president of Congress. On October 10, he assumed interim power, replacing Dina Boluarte, who was impeached amid massive protests over an unprecedented wave of extortion and contract killings across the country.
Boluarte’s government was widely viewed as inactive agains
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