QUINUA, Peru (AP) This rural hamlet nestled high in the Peruvian Andes was the site of a major battle that secured South America’s independence from Spain in the 19th century. But on Saturday, the streets of Quinua were overrun by weeping residents commemorating a far more senseless loss: the death of Clemer Rojas, a 23-year-old student who left his parents' home Thursday to protest the ousting of President Pedro Castillo and never returned.
Clemer Rojas was killed near a provincial capital that has emerged as an unlikely epicenter of unrest in the country's still unfolding political crisis