Pedro Castillo, a rural school teacher, was sworn in as President of Peru on July 28, 2021; his victory built on solid electoral support from Andean Indigenous collectives. On December 7, 2022, he tried to close the Congress, an unconstitutional act. He was legally ousted and imprisoned, and Dina Boluarte, vice-president, was sworn-in as the new President. Taking to the streets of Andean provincial capitals, initially to protest the imprisonment of their elected president, demonstrators were met with lethal state violence. As the protests escalated, and the police continued to kill, injure, and imprison demonstrators, the scope of the demands broadened to include the resignation of Boluarte and the Congress, and even demands for a new Constitution. In a historically unprecedented march, the leaderless “March to Lima” (Marcha a Lima) demonstrators—in buses and on foot—took their demands to the capital city. Online or in person, contributors to this Hot Spots series are witnesses of the events. We think historically and ethnographically with the Indigenous collectives that, in the exercise of their citizenship, confront the criminal denial of their basic right to protest and reveal for history the absence of the political elites’ will to democracy. At moment of the publication of this series, the toll of this absence is at least 60 deaths, over 600 injuries, and over 380 arrests.