'Her plea for mutual understanding with protesters now is likely too late in what analysts are calling the deadliest popular uprising in South America in recent years,' writes Tara John | Analysis
When Dina Boluarte was anointed Peru’s sixth president in five years, she faced battles on two fronts: appeasing the lawmakers who had ousted her boss and predecessor Pedro Castillo, and calming protesterse enraged by the dethroning of yet another president.
They hoped he would bring better prospects to the country’s rural and indigenous people who have long felt excluded from Peru’s economic boom in the past decade. His ousting from power last year was seen by some of his supporters as another attempt by Peru’s coastal elites to discount them. The public have long been disillusioned with the legislative body, which has been criticized as being self-interested and out-of-touch.
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