LIMA, Peru — In an industrial corridor of Peru’s capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor safehouse. Unlike neighboring Bolivia, where Indigenous groups were emboldened by Aymara coca-grower Evo Morales’ election as president in 2006, or Ecuador, where ethnic groups have a long tradition of toppling unpopular governments, Peru’s Indigenous groups had long struggled to gain political influence. “Don’t …
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