Peru president names woman environmentalist as new PM
Castillo swore in environmental and human rights activist Mirtha Vasquez, 46, as his new prime minister in a move seen as a sop to the moderate wing of the informal leftist coalition that supports him.
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Mirtha Vasquez -an environmental and human rights activist- posing for an official photograph after her swearing-in ceremony, in Lima, on October 6, 2021 (AFP)
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Peruvian President Pedro Castillo accepted the resignation of his prime minister Wednesday and replaced him with a female environmental activist.
Under Peruvian law, the prime minister's resignation automatically triggered that of