Peru’s fiercely contested campaign for president, in which the schoolteacher and farmer Pedro Castillo has a narrow lead, has brought to the surface a legacy of the country’s historic marginalization of Indigenous people. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports.
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