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In a way, what is sad about the situation is that the protests and the repression,

the geography of violence, let's say, is mapping onto the voting geography

that has shaped Peruvian politics for decades now.

I'm Quinteduristic, Senior Editor at LawFair, and this is the LawFair podcast, March 2nd, 2023.

Since December, Peru has been in the midst of a protracted political crisis.

Following a failed coup in early December, President Pedro Castillo was arrested,

becoming the fifth president to leave office in Peru in five years.

In the midst of protests, Castillo's deputy, Dina Boloarte, took power.

But protests have continued in the following months, with roughly 60 people dead.

Mostly protesters killed by the police and the military, as the Peruvian government takes an increasingly authoritarian turn.

After Castillo's departure from office in December, we published a podcast conversation with Rodrigo Berranochea,

a 2022-2023 San Diego Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University,

and an assistant professor at the Department de la Ciencia Socialist of the Universidad Católica de Uruguay.

With the violence and unrest continuing to unfold, I asked Rodrigo back on the podcast for an update on where things stand in Peru.

He explained why he thinks that Peru may no longer be fairly described as a democracy,

and why it's hard to see an end to this crisis anytime soon.

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