The Economist's Michael Reed has been in Peru for most of the past month. At least 58 people have died as a result of anti-government protests, he says. Protesters are unhappy with interim president Dina Balawate and want her to step down. The Y is all this happening? Check it out!
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to discover the spending habits of Generation Z and millennials. And examining the work of Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who was an unlikely midwife at the birth of modern satire.
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