‘They don’t see us as humans.’ In Peru, protests over racism and neglect spill from the Andes

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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. But there is another grievance at play, one especially present in the Andes, where many feel that the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire was just the beginning of a long history of racist subjection of Indigenous people. She was sitting with her mother in the family’s dimly lighted adobe home

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