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NEWS & LETTERS, June 2004Our Life and Times by Kevin A. BarryUpheaval in PeruCirilo Robles, the mayor of Ilave, a rural Peruvian town 200 miles southeast of Lima, was attacked by a mob of about 3,000 Aymara Indians, on April 27, and left under a bridge to die. The event capped a month of road blockages, including the main artery between Bolivia and Peru, by tens of thousands of highland Aymara protesting Robles inability to account for over $2 million in public funds that were supposed to have been spent on public works projects in impoverished areas. Peru's president, Alejandro Toledo, was also faced with a miners' strike at the end of April, a march of coca growers on the capital, and a doctors' strike in the north of the country. --Mitch Weerth |
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