Hundreds of people poured into the streets of a rural hamlet in Peru’s Andean highlands on Saturday to pay their final respects to a 23-year-old student killed in clashes with the army a day earlier.
A woman passes below a big black ribbon displayed as a symbol of people who were killed during protests against new President Dina Boluarte, in Ayacucho, Peru, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. The eight deaths this week that converted Ayacucho into the epicenter of violence in Peru's still unfolding crisis is for many a stark reminder of the region's bloody past and longstanding neglect by authorities in the far-away capital.
Rojas died in clashes with the army in the nearby provincial capital of Ayacucho, which has emerged as an unlikely epicenter of unrest in Peru's still unfolding political crisis. The tumult was triggered by Castillo's attempt to close Congress — awidely condemned by the U.S.
Nine people died that day — more than a third of the total deaths reported nationwide — as soldiers hustled from the barracks as part of a 30-day state of emergency and indiscriminately fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammo into large crowds. In his hometown, Rojas is remembered as a good kid and an avid participant in folk dances around Carnival time who drove a moto taxi to pay for his studies at a vocational school.
The region's poverty — even today 45% of children under the age of 3 suffer from iron deficiency, according to the government — made it a hotbed of clandestine activity for Maoist guerrillas that once terrorized much of Peru. The spread of the Shining Path in decades past, in turn, generated a ferocious backlash by Peru's military that has forever embittered residents against the ruling elite in the far away capital.
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