Peruvian prime minister’s praise of Hitler sparks wave of protest
by Dan Collyns in Lima from World news | The Guardian on (#5XYR1)
Anibal Torres said his words were misunderstood but offered to apologize in person to Israeli ambassador Asaf Ichilevich
The Israeli embassy in Lima has led a wave of protest after Peru's prime minister Anibal Torres praised Adolf Hitler, on the grounds that the fascist dictator turned Germany into the first economic power in the world".
In a week in which the government of Pedro Castillo has been engulfed in a political crisis caused by rising fuel and fertiliser prices triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and the president's own blundering efforts to calm the unrest - Torres' inopportune remark on Thursday drew opprobrium from all quarters.
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