RELATED: Peruvian Journalists Protest Over More Than 200 Attacks, Demand End to Harassment“If I were upset, rest assured I’d slam you against the wall. But since I’m not upset, that’s why you’re still alive,” Alcarraz told Marycielo Del Castillo, a journalist from TV channel Willax, as she left Congress. Del Castillo pressed the legislator over accusations that she had appointed her son’s partner as coordinator of her congressional office, a claim first raised in an investigative report aired by Willax. “All authorities are subject to scrutiny, and our role as journalists is to ask questions on behalf of the people,” Del Castillo wrote. The National Association of Journalists (ANP) lamented that there was “nothing to celebrate,” pointing to ongoing hostility against the press—from police crackdowns on youth-led anti-government protests to verbal assaults by government officials and local authorities.