‘We’ll march as many times as necessary’: Peru’s youth protesters defy state of emergency

‘This is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy,’ said Jorge Calmet of Generation Z Collective, flanked by Leandro Pacheco and Milagros Rojas, at a press conference in Lima, Peru. Photograph: Paolo Aguilar/EPA

A youth group in Peru calling itself the Generation Z Collective says it will march again on Saturday in defiance of a state of emergency declared by the government this week in the capital, Lima, and neighbouring port of Callao.

Group leaders said they would be honouring Eduardo Ruiz, a rapper known as Truko, who was shot dead by a plainclothed police officer last week during a huge anti-government march in Lima.