(18 Feb 2023)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 8 February 2023
1. Indigenous people traveling from Peru's country provinces shouting; UPSOUND "Dina murderer, the people repudiate you."
HEADLINE: Unrest bolsters Peru’s Indigenous activists
2. Provincials in a shelter
3. Mats where traveling supporters sleep
ANNOTATION: Two months into Peru's Indigenous-led insurrection groups of travelling protestors remain living in a clandestine shelter in Lima.
4. Various shots of people eating and cleaning the shelter
ANNOTATION: They rely on food and medicines donated by the people who support them.
5. Various of food and medicines at the shelter

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 8 February 2023
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcelo Fonseca Condori, Indigenous man from Puno:
"We're very hot-blooded, that's when we get angry when there's something, like the massacre at the airport (Ayacucho) and at my side (an Indigenous comrade) has fallen and died at my side, there, just a few centimeters away, seeing that makes us indignant and enraged".

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 11 February 2023
7. Indigenous people marching in the streets of Lima

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cusco, Peru - 4 February 2023
8. Police speaking to demonstrators
ANNOTATION: As political unrest and instability continue to grip the Andean country demonstrations and road blockades continue to wreak havoc nationwide.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Juliaca, Peru - 11 January 2023
9. Various of funeral procession for killed demonstrators
ANNOTATION: The protests, which have left at least 60 dead and hundreds injured, have been an unexpected shock for Peru's indigenous movement.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 11 January 2023
10. Man at march with sign saying: "No more racism."
11. People marching through the streets of Lima.
ANNOTATION: Leaders of the indigenous groups say despite the conditions they will continue with the protests and mobilizations in the streets of the capital.
STORYLINE:
In an industrial corridor of Peru's capital, dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up for more anti-government demonstrations as volunteers cook a breakfast of donated rice, pasta and vegetables.

Among the makeshift refuge's occupants is Marcelo Fonseca.

The 46-year-old watched as a friend was shot and killed in December as they battled security forces in the southern city of Juliaca.

Within hours, Fonseca joined a caravan of demonstrators that descended on the capital, Lima, to demand the resignation of interim President Dina Boluarte.

Two months into Peru's angry insurrection, emotions have hardened.

While the unrest has barely disturbed the late-night revelry in Lima's beachside enclaves, roadblocks still rage across the countryside, scaring away foreign tourists and leading to shortages of gas and other staples.

The unrest, which has left at least 60 dead, was triggered by the impeachment in December of President Pedro Castillo.

To Peruvians like Fonseca, the leftist rural teacher was a symbol of their own exclusion, while Boluarte's ascension to power from the vice presidency in cahoots with Castillo's conservative enemies in Congress is seen as an unforgivable class betrayal.

The impasse has given a jolt of self-confidence to Peru's Indigenous movement.


Although Peruvians of all backgrounds take pride in the history of the Inca Empire, the country's Indigenous population is often treated with neglect and even hostility.




Rivera said the crackdown has radicalized younger protesters.













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