Peru’s Foreign Affairs Minister Resigns in Blow to Castillo
- Hector Bejar accused Peru’s navy, CIA of fomenting terrorism
- Castillo loses first minister after less than a month in power
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The three-week-old administration of Peru’s President Pedro Castillo lost one of its most controversial figures on Tuesday after the foreign affairs minister quit, denounced for spreading wild conspiracy theories.
The minister, Hector Bejar, resigned after local media published a video filmed before he took office in which he said the Peruvian navy and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were behind terrorist atrocities in the country in past decades. Castillo accepted his resignation.