‘The Peruvian right never accepted my victory,’ Castillo says in a prison interview
Bearing signs with the photos of the victims of the ongoing political violence, demonstrators march against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, February 1, 2023
PERU’S El Salto newspaper published an interview on Tuesday with the country’s ousted former president Pedro Castillo from the Barbadillo maximum security prison in the capital Lima.
Mr Castillo has been in prison since Congress removed him from the presidency on December 7 last year and appointed his deputy Dina Boluarte to the role.
Since the coup by the Congress, Peru has been racked by protests that have been met with a brutal crackdown by authorities, leaving close to 50 dead.
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