Friday, April 8, 2016

Peru: The shameful history haunting Peru’s elections – video (1:07 min)

The Guardian
April 8, 2016

Women smeared with red paint joined protests in the Peruvian capital, Lima, this week, to highlight the forced sterilisation of at least 300,000 Peruvians – mostly poor, indigenous women – in the 1990s. The abuses were overseen by former president Alberto Fujimori, whose daughter Keiko is now the frontrunner in Sunday’s presidential elections