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Protesters brave tear gas to demand ouster of Peru’s embattled leader

Protesters brave tear gas to demand ouster of Peru’s embattled leader

LIMA: Riot police tossed tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in new unrest in Peru's capital on Monday, and the nation's interior minister said there was no end in sight to the tumult gripping the nation.Several hundred protesters marched in colonial central Lima to demand the ouster of President Dina Boluarte -- some shouting “Dina murderer!” -- until police moved in with tear gas volleys.This crisis triggered by the ouster of leftist and Indigenous president Pedro Castillo early last month stems largely from a gaping inequity between Peru's urban elite and poor rural Indigenous people in the southern Andean region who saw him as one of their own and working to make their lives better.The unrest has left 46 dead in the South American nation, and Interior Minister Vicente Romero forecast no relief.“The social protests will continue. We are working intensively with the defense ministry to resolve them,“ Romero told the state TV Peru channel.After a mass rally last week in Li

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