ANTA, Peru — As anti-government protests spread across the Peruvian highlands last month, Remo Candia Guevara, a 42-year-old community leader in this rural farming town, grew increasingly anguished.
National police had repeatedly shot into crowds of unarmed protesters, killing dozens. Candia blamed President Dina Boluarte.
"She's an assassin," Candia said in a video interview with a local journalist on Jan. 10. "Many young people have died, cut down by her bullets."
