The Fed raised interest rates another 50 basis points and warned next year will see more increases. President Biden is wooing African leaders to try to restore U.S. influence in the region. U.N. member states booted Iran from a women’s advocacy committee. And Christmas plans in Peru were ruined after the embattled government declared a 30-day state of emergency. All this and more in today’s PDB.
Pedro Castillo is to be kept in custody as a Supreme Court Judge said he posed a flight risk when trying to seek asylum at the Mexican embassy in Lima.
A Peruvian judge has ordered ousted President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody for 18 months, approving a request from authorities for time to build their rebellion case against him.
The judge's decision came a day after the government declared a police state as it struggles to calm the violence in impoverished Andean regions that were the base of support for Castillo.