Domnika Elarabi
Professor Rice
History 3072
December 9, 2020
Module 4
Source: NBC News
Title: Peru’s youth helped take down a president. Now they want changes to the constitution.
By Reuters
November 19, 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/peru-s-youth-helped-take-down-president-now-they-want-n1248240
I find this article interesting because it is an example that shows how corrupt people can be and that people will try to invoke anything to remain a person in power. The article is a great example because it demonstrates how the government is trying to keep itself as a one-sided government and that it doesn’t want to listen to the people, however, the people overthrew one powerful person and demanded changes to the government, as well as, their own constitution. The young people have had enough of their government trying to be a one-sided opinion and that the government wanted to do only the things that only benefited themselves but not the benefit of the people who helped them to power.
The article also states why the people went out to protest because the people wanted to fix the past in order to fix the future of Peru. “We wanted to fix the mistakes of the past generations” stated Yarango. I guess in Peru there is so much doubt amongst the people and that the people know that the government cannot be easily fixed, as well as, the government is also very corrupt. The young people disapproved of the way that Peru was headed and that the young people noticed what was going on. The protests were a way to show the government that things were about to change, however, the protests will go as far as it needs to in order to have some kind of change within the government.
Protests/rebellions are a common factor of wanting change amongst the government and the protests/rebellions were willing to risk their own lives in order to have a better future for themselves and the country. Some protesters lived lives in a way that it was difficult to choose what was necessary to make decisions or to make a statement that needed to be made such as killing a person from the government or the military. Furthermore, protesters also paid a price in demonstrating their rights and protesting in what needed to be changed because the protesters also faced imprisonment, if things got out of hand with the police or military, as well as, willing to prove a point that things needed to change.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/peru-s-youth-helped-take-down-president-now-they-want-n1248240
Dawson, Alexander, “Latin America SInce Independence: A History with Primary Sources.”. 2nd edition. Routledge. New York and London. 2015. Pages 295-296.