“Los Estados Unidos se comprometen a trabajar productivamente con el presidente José Enrique Jerí… Reafirmamos nuestra asociación de casi 200 años y mantenemos nuestro compromiso de apoyar la estabilidad, la seguridad y a las instituciones democráticas del Perú.”

— Embajada de los EE.UU. en el Perú, 10OCT2025

The statement is brief and perfectly calculated that projects no ideology, no enthusiasm, only the ritual of recognition. In diplomatic language, neutrality is never neutral. Each word performs sovereignty, and US and also UK are still performing influence to latin-america.

1. The Schmittian decision. Carl Schmitt taught that sovereignty lies in deciding who counts as legitimate. The embassy’s message performs exactly that act by placing José Jerí within the circle of their recognized order. It doesn’t matter how he arrived there; the declaration itself creates legitimacy by recognizing it.

2. Agamben’s economy of government. Giorgio Agamben would call this oikonomía, it is the theology of administration. The divine glory of old monarchies survives today as “stability” and “security”. These words sanctify the machinery of the peruvian government itself, not its operators. The United States blesses no ideology, only continuity under its influence. Governance is sacred as long as it functions for US.

3. Foucault’s governmentality. Here, power is relational and productive, not merely repressive. The embassy’s phrase “trabajar productivamente” embodies the principle of politics as management of flows such as trade, cooperation, elections. Governance becomes a shared technology, a common language; sovereignty does not dissolves but is disguised into coordination.

4. Negri’s Empire. Antonio Negri would read this as the smooth operation of Empire that is backing a system that survives by continually incorporating new nodes into its network. Each national crisis, including the fall of Boluarte, the rise of Jerí, is neutralized through recognition and support. The act of naming the new node stabilizes what chaos had exposed.

5. Cynicism without guilt. The embassy may not approve the actual move, but is transforming it as procedure. It supports not Jerí but governability under its umbrella, it means the ability to sign agreements, to guarantee investment, to keep elections on schedule. It’s the diplomacy of the spreadsheet, where faith and focus is in management, as the only universal creed.

Thus, the theology of diplomacy and democracy remains intact. Recognition replaces conviction; stability substitutes for justice. The empire no longer conquers territories, instead it maintains partnerships. And every statement like this one, polite and efficient, re-ordains the world one sentence at a time.