Two months on, there’s no solution in sight as authorities use force to try to subdue protests calling for political change
urning pyres of rubbish and bullet-pocked walls. Troops holed up in the airport with AK-47s and riot shields, waiting for a truce that has no date to come. A mayor holding court behind the broken windows of a vandalised city hall.
As the woman spoke, a male protest leader, who declined to give his name, arrived to voice his fury that so many protesters had been gunned down “like animals” by security forces since the uprising began. So far at least 59 people have reportedly been killed, including one police officer. Some, although not all, also call for Castillo – a former unionist who was elected in 2021 promising to rule for Peru’s disenfranchised rural poor but facedDeep-rooted rural anger at the neglect by Peru’s largely white, Lima-based political elites has been exacerbated by the killing of so many protesters – the majority in agricultural backlands, such as Puno, where the profits of gold and copper mining have failed to reduce poverty.
But protesters reject those portrayals and claim authorities are trying to silence their legitimate calls for political change with guns. “When I was nine it was similar,” he said. “There were bombs. Roadblocks. There was no food, there were queues everywhere to buy kerosene … There was a curfew at night so you couldn’t leave your home … It was so, so sad.”Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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