The mass protests this week in Peru, triggered by rising inflation, are likely to lead to a further shift towards looser fiscal policy and a larger political risk premium on local financial assets. Elsewhere, there is a growing risk that Chile's Constitutional Convention will fail to create a legitimate new charter which reinforces our long-held view that lingering political concerns will weigh on the currency this year.
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