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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Sicuani

‘We’ll fight until the end’: a journey through the centre of Peru’s uprising

A demonstrator shouts slogans before gathering at Túpac Amaru square in Cusco, Peru.
A demonstrator shouts slogans before gathering at Túpac Amaru square in Cusco, Peru. Photograph: Michael Bednar/Getty Images

One by one, the rebel campesinos clambered up to the improvised podium they had built atop a 6ft earth barricade, to declare their determination to topple the president of Peru.

“Brothers and sisters, right now our Peru needs us more than ever,” Nilda Mendoza Coronel, a 35-year-old farmer, told hundreds of strikers who had gathered under a ferocious morning sun.

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