Escorted by the Police and with a firm step, thousands of protesters have toured the center of Lima in defense of Pedro Castillo. They denounce that the new government has usurped democratic power. In addition, about twenty demonstrators have been injured in other protests in the south of the country. There they have cut roads, set up barricades, and even They have detained the police for a few hours deployed in the area.
For their part, Peruvian social associations have called a national strike since Monday, and they will maintain it, as they have said, until new elections are called and Pedro Castillo is released. Precisely, the former president of Peru has spoken for the first time since his arrest through a handwritten letter, in which he assures that on Friday and Saturday they took blood without your consent.
It was a Peruvian deputy who shared the note, after he assured on Friday that when Castillo spoke of “an exceptional emergency government”, his hands trembled and was not in his faculties. Along the same lines, another adviser has insinuated that the former president would have been drugged: “A few minutes before they gave him a drinka supposed glass of water, but after drinking it, he felt groggy,” said Guillermo Olivera, a friend and adviser to Pedro Castillo.
Accuses the new president of a “Machiavellian plan”
The former Peruvian president ends his letter by talking about a “Machiavellian plan” of the new president. Dina Boluarte, the same one who in the last few hours has sworn in a totally new Executive, along with whom she has promised to “seek stability” for the country. This Sunday the Peruvian congress meets to analyze the documents of the Prosecutor’s Office against Pedro Castillo.
Source: Lasexta
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