The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years. Their fury is such that their protests continued despite the deaths of seven people.
ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru — The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in Andahuaylas, a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years and where voters’ support helped elect now-ousted President Pedro Castillo, himself a peasant like them.
“For them, those who are there in Congress, the only opinion that is valid is that of Peruvians who have money, of wealthy people,” said Quispe, an early childhood education teacher. While protesters have also gathered in Lima, the capital, the demonstrations have been particularly heated in rural areas that were strongholds for Castillo, a former schoolteacher and political newcomer from a poor Andean mountain district.
Boluarte, in her address to the nation, also declared a state of emergency in areas outside Lima, where protests have been particularly violent.
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