Thousands of people continue this Monday for the fifth consecutive day participating in general mobilizations demanding the ouster of Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, early elections and the closure of Congress, especially in rural areas in the south of the country, where road blockades and clashes with authorities have been reported.
The latest official figures speak of at least thirteen of the country’s main roads blocked in the departments of Puno, Cuzco, Arequipa, Madre de Dios, Apurímac, Ucayali and Tacna, while more than fifty other secondary roads continue in the same situation.
Meanwhile, in the capital, Lima, at least a hundred people have been arrested while participating in the protests. Likewise, several sectors and unions have announced that they will join the strike days that were called before the weekend.
Congressmen from the department of Puno have issued a joint communiqué to demand Boluarte’s resignation after the clashes that took place over the weekend in the region, which left some thirty people injured, among them several journalists.
«The latest events in Puno have confirmed the repressive, dictatorial, military, and abusive character», denounced the parliamentary group representing this region, which criticized the disproportionate and discretionary use of force against «women, young people, adolescents, neighbors and press».
The deputies also endorsed the demands of the demonstrators and stressed that the early elections, the closing of the Congress and the creation of a Constituent Assembly to elaborate a new Magna Carta are demands «in the face of so much neglect and abandonment».
The protests in Peru began after the arrest of former president Pedro Castillo and his indictment for rebellion when he tried to close the Congress and call parliamentary elections after a year and a half of trying to govern while dealing with the maneuvers of the chamber, which at the third time succeeded in removing him from office.
As a result of the repression of the protests by the forces of law and order, about thirty people have died. On Friday, the Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against Boluarte and several cabinet ministers for these events.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
