Peru's former President Pedro Castillo shows little reaction as he is handed an 11-year prison sentence by a court in Lima on Thursday. Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images Lima, Peru —

In an extraordinary two-day series of judgments, a Peruvian Supreme Court chamber sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to more than 11 years in prison for attempting to dissolve Congress, only a day after another ex-president, Martín Vizcarra, was convicted and given 14 years for bribery.

During a special hearing of the Supreme Court held at Lima’s Barbadillo Prison on Thursday, Castillo was found guilty by a two-to-one vote of attempting to dissolve Congress and assume extraordinary powers in 2022.

The ruling comes just one day after Vizcarra was convicted – marking unprecedented back-to-back

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