‘They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho

While helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho on December 15. This action was in response to a national strike and mobilization to protest the coup d’état that deposed President Pedro Castillo on December 7. Hundreds of university students, shopkeepers, street vendors, agricultural workers [...]