This is a lot more complex than the Americans in this sub think it is. While it makes sense to compare what happened in Brazil to what happening in the US, the comparison fails with Peru. This is bigger than Castillo and not everyone protesting even like him, although the idea of him was definitely a powerful one in the south.

This has centuries of racism and classism behind it and a country with a capital that thinks the brown poor people from the south who are protesting are either savages or manipulated idiots and they’re happy seeing them be killed by the police.