Iran in Latin America World Israel News MAY 18, 2026
Peru’s antisemitic president hands Tehran a strategic foothold in the Andes
Beijing has poured tens of billions of dollars into Peruvian mining projects while Tehran rides those coattails while building its own covert networks.
Peru’s interim president, José María Balcázar, delivered a speech at the Lima Chamber of Commerce on April 28, 2026, that should have focused on Peru’s trade history.
Instead, the 83-year-old leftist lawmaker recycled Nazi-era conspiracy theories.
Jews, he declared, “controlled all the banks, all the commerce, and practiced usury” and had “pushed Germany into a war” because of it (only 0.3 percent of the German population in 1939 was Jewish).
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