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Peru's new foreign minister resigns in latest blow to president

FILE PHOTO: Peru's President Pedro Castillo walks, ahead of delivering his Independence Day address to the nation, outside the Legislative Palace in Lima, Peru July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Angela Ponce/File Photo

Peru's foreign minister, Miguel Rodriguez, has resigned after just one month in office, the country's foreign ministry said on Friday, after public clashes between the official and leftist president Pedro Castillo.

"I am writing to you to submit my irrevocable resignation to the position of Minister of State in the Office of Foreign Relations," Rodriguez wrote in a letter published by the foreign ministry on Twitter.

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