Peru

Exactly 200 years ago, on 28 July 1821, General José de San Martín solemnly proclaimed the independence of Peru from the Spanish crown, in the country=s capital, Lima. The date symbolizes the end of the monarchical form of government and the beginning of Peru as a republic. In the course of its 200-year history, the Andean republic has swung between dictatorship and democracy, economically between...