Peru’s new president, Dina Boluarte, is the first woman to hold the office in the country’s 200 years of independence. The 60-year-old leftist lawyer, who was sworn in as the Andean nation’s new head of state on Wednesday, had served as vice-president to Pedro Castillo until he was swiftly voted out of office by lawmakers after attempting to close the country’s congress.
Accepting the presidential sash in Peru’s congress, Boluarte said her first task would be “to take action against corruption. This cancer has to be extirpated from the country.”
