'My husband loved life. He was full of life. He did not deserve to die. They took away my daughter's right to have a father.' – Ruth Bárcena Loayza At 2:50 p.m. on December 15, 2022, Ruth Bárcena Loayza saw on social media that her husband had been shot. Leonardo David Hancco Chacca, a 32-year-old heavy machinery operator, had left home that morning to join a wave of demonstrations that were rocking Peru's impoverished and heavily Indigenous south. The couple lived in Ayacucho, a town high in Peru's Andes where the population had suffered both the extreme violence of the Maoist armed group Shining Path and the indiscriminately brutal response of state forces in the 1980s.

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