Three presidents in one week: Peruvian youths say ‘enough’
Nov 18, 2020
4 minutes
Federico La Hoz had an inkling he was going to be a part of history on Nov. 9.
That was the day legislators rushed to install the speaker of Peru’s Congress as president, after his predecessor was hastily impeached. Mr. La Hoz, 24, met up with friends and headed to downtown Lima, a sea of government buildings. They were surprised to join a swelling crowd of demonstrators, the vast majority young, opposed to what they saw as a power grab by newly installed President Manuel Merino and his congressional clique.
By Nov. 15, two protesters had died, intensifying demands for change.
As the crowd grew, so did the use of virtual networks – from Facebook to TikTok – to spread the word that
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