There are more than a dozen parties in a small Congress of 130 members. A lot of them are businesses with higher themselves out to accommodate and pays the most money. There's not much ideology in Peruvian politics either. And the state's ability to implement policies is fairly limited. In an ideal world, there would be political reforms as well but that's unlikely.
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to discover the spending habits of Generation Z and millennials. And examining the work of Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who was an unlikely midwife at the birth of modern satire.
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