A Peaceful Lion, and More Peruvian than Gringo

BOGOTÁThe Vatican City has only 44 hectares (less than half a square kilometer) and is the smallest country in the world. Its form of government is defined as “elective monarchy.” Decisions are made in a peculiar way: the members of the synod (the council of bishops) discuss and think, but, regardless of the majorities, the only vote that counts is that of the Pope, who decides. Stalin once asked, to mock his geopolitical importance, “how many d…