CONCEPCIÓN, Chile — In Latin America, finishing a presidency is still an achievement in itself: More than 20 presidents have failed to do so since the early 1980s. In recent years, Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador and Pedro Castillo of Peru saw their mandates cut short. Argentina’s Javier Milei recently had an impeachment motion filed against him, though it had almost no chance of succeeding. Peru’s Dina Boluarte has so far dodged five motions to oust her by the opposition in a deeply fragmented Congress. Why do some presidents withstand turmoil while others fall As I outline in my new…
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