Calm in Peru has not yet arrived. The government of Dina Boluarte has ordered new measures to normalize activities in several regions and put an end to the protests, although it does not seem to be working.
Boluarte ordered that the state of emergency be extended to the regions of Lima, Cusco and Callao, previously it had been done in Puno.
In the state of emergency, the action of the military forces together with the Police is authorized. The measure will be in force from Sunday for the next ten days, from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.
Protests increase in Peru with extended marches to Lima, add 42 dead
The government decision comes at a time when associations called mobilizations from southern Peru to Lima starting Monday, an action that the authorities describe as a “riot” to destabilize Boluarte.
At least 99 road sections blocked in 10 regions. Among the regions with blocked roads were Puno, Arequipa and Cusco (south), reported the Superintendence of Land Transport, adding that there had never been so many cuts in the current crisis.
In Arequipa, dozens of residents blocked the Panamericana Sur highway that reaches the Tacna region, on the border with Chile.
On Saturday night, dozens of protesters arrived in the Miraflores district, in Lima, after leaving from the central Plaza San MartÃn.
In Cusco, the train service to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu resumed on Sunday after two days of paralysis due to protests.
The Ombudsman’s Office has recorded 42 deaths in five weeks of protests, which resumed at the beginning of January.
Pedro Castillo was dismissed for trying to dissolve Congress, which the Constitution did not allow. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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