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Challenges mount against Peru’s president, his family

FILE - Peru's President Pedro Castillo waves after posing for a group photo at the Andean Community Summit, in Lima, Peru, Aug. 29, 2022. There are five preliminary probes against Castillo linked to what prosecutors describe as a criminal network led by the president. A sixth investigation accuses him and his wife of plagiarizing their master’s degree thesis a decade ago. Castillo was a rural schoolteacher in Peru’s third poorest district before he moved into the presidential palace. His only leadership experience before becoming president was as the head of a teachers’ strike in 2017. It is his inexperience that makes some doubt whether he is the ringleader of the corruption schemes. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - A folk artist performs alongside a cordon of police outside the Congress building, as Peruvians wait for news on who will be the country's next president, in Lima, Peru, Nov. 15, 2020. Peru at the time had three different presidents in a single week after one was impeached by Congress and protests forced his successor to resign. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) FILE - Supporters of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo hold signs with the Spanish words for, "Sell outs," left, and "Corrupt," as they call for the dissolution of Congress, where lawmakers have sought to remove him twice, as Castillo gives his annual address at Congress on Independence Day in Lima, Peru, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File) FILE - Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, center front, waves alongside his new cabinet outside the government palace as his cabinet leaves for Congress to ask lawmakers for a vote of confidence, in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2022. Castillo swore in the fourth Cabinet of his half year in office amid criticism for his poor previous choices for ministers and even calls by his rivals to step down. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - A protester holds a poster showing images of Peru's President Pedro Castillo, his wife Lilia, his sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes and the Spanish word for delinquents written across it, during a demonstration against Paredes, outside a court in Lima, Peru, Aug. 28, 2022. A Peruvian judge ordered Paredes to be held in prison while she is investigated for criminal association and corruption for her participation in an alleged money laundering scheme involving the president and first lady. It is the first time in Peru that a relative so close to a sitting president has been sent to prison. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - Then Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo waves to supporters celebrating partial election results at his campaign headquarters in Lima, Peru, June 7, 2021. Castillo was a rural schoolteacher in Peru’s third poorest district before he moved into the presidential palace. His only leadership experience before becoming president was as the head of a teachers’ strike in 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - A protester takes part in an anti-corruption march backdropped by a poster featuring images of former congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, and three former Peruvian presidents, Alan Garcia, from second left, Alejandro Toledo, and Ollanta Humala, with a message that reads in Spanish; "To jail", in Lima, Peru, Feb. 16, 2017. Almost all former Peruvian presidents who governed since 1985 have been ensnared in corruption allegations, some imprisoned or arrested in their mansions. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - Then presidential candidate Pedro Castillo poses for a photo with his family; daughter Alondra 9, from left, son Arnold 16, wife Lilia Paredes, and sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes, in Chugur, Peru, Friday, April 16, 2021. Castillo's sister-in-law whom he raised and considers a daughter, was ordered by a judge on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, to be held in prison up to 2.5 years while she is investigated for criminal association and corruption for her participation in an alleged money laundering scheme involving the president and first lady. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) FILE - Then presidential candidate Pedro Castillo leads his cows for feeding as journalists follow, in Chugur, Peru, April 15, 2021. Castillo’s election in 2021 brought hopes for change in Peru’s unstable and corrupt political system, but the impoverished rural teacher and political neophyte has found himself engulfed in impeachment votes and corruption allegations. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)
Challenges mount against Peru’s president, his family