Dina Boluarte calls for vote to be held in December after weeks of anti-government protests since overthrow of former president
But the demonstrations and blockades have spread in size and scale as scores of civilians have been killed in violent clashes with the security forces, overwhelmingly in the southern Andes, a region ignored and marginalised by the Lima establishment which largely supported ousted Castillo who pledged to eradicate poverty and overturn the status quo.
“We are here to protest against this authoritarian government which kills its people,” said one of the marchers, a 40-year-old teacher called Javier Cusimay. Protests have spread to the capital, Lima, as demonstrators travelled in convoys from the southern Andes to the capital to demand Boluarte’s resignation, the closure of congress and fresh elections.
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