Peru’s Next Generation of Leaders Is Leaving

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Peru is losing its talented young people. According to a poll published in September by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, a well-known think tank based in Lima, 60% of those between the ages of 18 to 24, and 51% of people between 25 and 39, say they have plans to leave the country in the next three years. It seems that Peru is yet another Latin American nation whose youth have decided to seek a future elsewhere. These numbers have confirmed a trend that I had noticed for some time already in my personal life. I left Lima for the United Kingdom for the second time in 2021, having previously lived here between 2013 and 2015. But unlike during that earlier period, this time a great many of my Peruvian friends are living here as well. Several others have chosen to reside in the United States or Canada. And except for maybe one or two, none have plans to return. At a first glance, stories of Peruvians migrating abroad in search a better life are far from uncommon. My parents’ generation s

Reading Time: 4 minutes Correction appended below. Peru is losing its talented young people. According to a poll published in September by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, a well-known think tank based in Lima, 60% of those between the ages of 18 to 24, and 51% of people between 25 and 39, say they have plans to leave the country in the next three years. It seems that Peru is yet another Latin American nation whose youth have decided to seek a future elsewhere. These numbers have confirmed a trend that I had noticed for some time already in my personal life. I left Lima for the United Kingd

Peru’s Next Generation of Leaders Is Leaving

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