Ethnic Proximity and Ethnic Voting in Peru | Journal of Latin American Studies

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In Peru there is a group of victims of the Alberto Fujimori regime who were excluded from the possibility of obtaining justice. These are thousands of indigenous and peasant women who, during that time, were violated their reproductive autonomy with an appalling State policy to sterilize them in a forced manner. One of those stories is that of Celia Ramos, who died because of that policy. I want to tell you how it is that, after three decades, t…