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LIMA, Peru – A group of young women hike up their skirts and smear each other’s inner thighs with red paint to symbolize the victims of forced sterilizations. Some women also use black paint to write “never again” across their arms.
They line up in five rows and link arms, ready to join a march against Keiko Fujimori, the 40-year-old daughter of a former president and the the clear frontrunner in Peru’s upcoming presidential election.
“Today we are going to use our bodies as a political tool,” says an organizer who is prepping the protesters for their march through Lima’s historical center. “We are going to scream and march for those who can’t be here, for those whose voices have been silenced.”
The march begins and the women pick up their pace, belting out chants at the top of their lungs. A pack of TV crews tries to keep pace. “For memory and dignity, no more Fujimori!” they scream in unison. “We are the daughters of the campesinas who you couldn’t sterilize,” they yell, drawing supportive applause from...