Clashes between police and protesters in Puno this week were the deadliest in a month of bloodletting. Critics accuse security forces of using excessive force.
The protesters are demanding Boluarte’s resignation. But analysts say the visceral discontent with the government here is rooted in decades of racism and marginalization by decision-makers in Lima, who have long ignored the people of the Andes and the Amazon — people who believed that in Castillo they had finally found a president who would stand up for them.
That alleged racism has taken the form of terruqueo, a uniquely Peruvian term that describes the smearing of critics by falsely accusing them of terrorism. The tactic resonates deeply in a society traumatized by the Maoist insurgents of theLawmakers impeached Castillo after he attempted to dissolve the Congress and rule by decree. Boluarte was his running mate on the Marxist-Leninist Free Peru ticket in 2021.
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