Two former presidents of Peru jailed in two days

Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo is among two of the South American nation’s ex-leaders to be handed prison sentences in as many days. The left-wing leader was given 11 years in jail on Thursday for attempting to disband Peru’s Congress and rule by decree in 2022. The gamble failed, and he was impeached and arrested. He was found guilty of “conspiracy to commit rebellion” by the Supreme Court, which handed down the sentence at the same time as convicting him. Castillo’s sentence comes just a day after another former Peruvian president, Martín Vizcarra, was handed 14 years’ in prison for bribe-taking while serving as a regional governor.