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massive mobilizations and national strike against President Dina Boluarte

massive mobilizations and national strike against President Dina Boluarte

At the same time, in Arequipasecond city of Peru, there was a pitched battle between the forces of order and a thousand protesters who at the point of throwing stones try to storm the airport, being fired back with tear gas, according to local television.

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Columns of protesters set out from various points in Lima, planning to march for several hours along the main avenues of the city before converging at the end of the day in front of the Palace of Justice, where a rally is expected.

“We are here fighting for our just reason. We want them to close Congress,” farmer Ayda Aroni, who arrived from the Ayacucho region, 330 km southeast of Lima, told AFP.

“They marginalize us, they tell us that we are vandals, they tell us that we are terrucos (terrorists), we are demanding our right,” added this woman who wore an Andean outfit with a red skirt, white blouse, and a black hat typical of her city.

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She carried a black and white flag instead of the Peruvian red and white flag, as a sign of mourning for the more than 40 deaths that the protest has left in six weeks.

In Lima, the authority deployed “11,800 troops in the streets to control riots, more than 120 trucks and 49 military vehicles, and also the participation of the armed forces,” said the head of the Lima Police Region, General Víctor Zanabría.

Various businesses near the route of the march were closing as the day progressed and some of them covered the windows with wood to avoid being the target of eventual attacks by vandals.

Deaths

On Thursday, the death of a second protester wounded by a gunshot wound to the chest hours before when he was demonstrating in Macusani, Puno region, the Ombudsman’s Office informed AFP.

On Wednesday, a woman also died of a gunshot wound in the framework of the protests in Macusani, where a mob burned down a police station and a courthouse.

These two deaths brought the total number of deaths to 44 since the crisis broke out on December 7.

In the regions of Puno, Huánuco, and Tacna, hundreds of peasants mobilized through the streets. The Cusco airport, like the Arequipa airport, suspended its operations for security reasons.

The railway service between Cusco and the Inca citadel Machu Picchu, a jewel of tourism in Peru, was also suspended, the operating company reported.

“In Lima, the fight will have more weight. When they repress us in our regions, nobody mentions it,” assured Abdón Félix Flores, 30, a farmer who says he is ready “to give his life.” He left Andahuaylas on Sunday, the epicenter of the demonstrations in December, to arrive in Lima on Tuesday.

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The Government extended the state of emergency in the country.

The Government extended the state of emergency in the country.

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The general secretary of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), whose organization is behind the march, predicted a long long run until the resignation of the president.

“The marches will continue. All the regions of the country have said that they will not return to their places of origin until Dina Boluarte resigns” told AFP Geronimo Lopezunion leader who called the strike.

Although the government decreed a 30-day state of emergency on Sunday in Lima, Cuzco, Callao and Puno, the union leader specified that the organizers did not request authorization for the concentration.

“There is no authorization from the police, authorization is never requested for a social demonstration, it is not an obligation that they authorize us,” he assured, despite the fact that the state of emergency suspends the freedoms of assembly and movement, in addition to allowing the intervention of the army to maintain order.

The crisis in Peru

Peru has experienced intense protests since the leftist president was dismissed by Congress on December 7 Pedro Castillo and arrested for a failed coup with which he attempted to shut down Parliament, rule by decree, and convene a Constituent Assembly.

The crisis also reflects the huge gap that exists between the capital and the poor provinces that support President Castillo, of indigenous origin, and who saw in his election a form of revenge against Lima’s contempt.

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President Boluarte called for calm on Monday: “We know that they want to take Lima because of everything that is appearing on the networks on the 18th and 19th, I call on them to take Lima, yes, but in peace, calmly.”

Boluarte was the vice president of Castillo, whom she replaced as established by the Constitution, and comes from the same party, but is seen as a “traitor” by the protesters.

Source: Ambito

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