The volunteers are heading to a Peace Corps post in Ecuador to discuss the sensitive withdrawal, a person familiar with the move said on condition of anonymity.
The decision comes after weeks of popular protests against the government that took power following a failed coup in December that tried to impeach Peru’s president. It is a South American country A few years of political chaosCycling through several presidents in various corruption and other scandals.
Peace Corps Volunteers work in areas far from national capitals and under less immediate protection than US diplomats – meaning they are sometimes the first group of US workers to be dispatched when violence breaks out.
Although the U.S. has issued some travel alerts for Peru, there is no current information that the U.S. Embassy in Peru, officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or other government agents are leaving the country.
He has a peace team. A long, though somewhat unbroken story In Peru. In the year Hundreds of volunteers cycled across the country between 1962 and 1975, when the program was shut down due to political and economic unrest. He returned to his country in 2002.
Analysts fear that the situation in Peru – and the conditions that allow Peace Corps volunteers to work there – cannot improve.
“The government has doubled down on the attack,” said Jo-Marie Burt, a professor of Latin American studies at George Mason University. “Things will get worse before they get better.”