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Left-wing Castillo, a former teacher and peasant farmer raised in a poor family in Peru's rural Andes, came to power last year.

Castillo, a peasant farmer and former school teacher, took officein July 2021, after winning the presidency on a leftist platform to lift the poor and fund new social programs.

One of our passengers, a peasant farmer, had a son, Michela, who was being held on suspicion of murder.

Castillo, who was a peasant farmer and teacher before taking office, is also in a precarious political situation.

The protests are also a reality check for the embattled presidency of leftist Pedro Castillo, a peasant farmer and school teacher who won the election last year with overwhelming support from Peru's rural poor.