Peru protesters rally against Pedro Castillo’s new government

Protesters decry new president’s decision to appoint hardliner Guido Bellido as prime minister.

Hundreds of Peruvians have rallied against leftist President Pedro Castillo days after he appointed a hardliner and a Marxist as his prime minister. The protesters marched through Peru’s capital, Lima, on Saturday evening, carrying placards denouncing newly appointed Prime Minister Guido Bellido as a “terrorist” and a sympathizer of the Shining Path, a Maoist rebel group that killed tens of thousands of Peruvians in the 1980s and 1990s in an attempt to seize power. “Terrorism, never again,” the crowd chanted. Some also held placards that said, “No to communism.”