"Terruqueo" and Peru's Fear of the Left
A decades-old stigma against anything appearing leftist may be a factor in April’s presidential election. A memorial to two Peruvians killed in a protest in November. ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images LIMA – Last November, Peru’s youth took to the streets in the country’s largest pro-democratic protests since the return to democracy in 2000, accusing lawmakers who voted to remove President Martín Vizcarra of putting corrupt personal interests over the good of the country. A violent police response resulted in the death of two demonstrators, university students Jack Bryan Pin...
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