The political crisis in Peru deepened with the organization of the “taking of lime“, as the protest organized in the capital that forced the authorities to deploy more than eleven thousand police officers. Until now, the area had been exempt from the chaos that prevailed in the south of the country, this being the epicenter of the violent protests against the government of ignoble Boluarte.
This Thursday the 19th, the capital of Peru, inhabited by ten million people, woke up armored. The authorities deployed a strong security operation in both Lima and Callao, the cities where the protesters were expected to advance. On the eve of the new day of protest, the death of two other people was recorded during the police repression, cuts to the main arteries of the country, the suspension of trains and the closure of airports.
The political crisis in Peru broke out after the removal and detention of Pedro Castillo after his failed self-coup on December 7. Since then, thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of Boluarte, the call for early elections and the release of the former president.
How is the security operation in Lima
Some 11,800 policemen They were deployed in the streets of Lima for “riot control”, according to the jChief of the Police Region of LimaVíctor Zanabria.”We have more than 120 trucks and 49 military vehicles, and also the participation of the armed forces. Police will be on high alert“, he assured.
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For his part, the national coordinator of the Crime Prevention ProsecutorsAlfonso Barrenechea, estimated that fifty provincial prosecutors will be mobilized, while 196 cameras will be activated in different parts of the capitalas in the Plaza 2 de Mayo or in the Plaza San Martín, among others.
With respect to the seats of power, both the Congress, the Palace of Justice and the Public Ministry are fenced off, while the Peruvian Ministry of Health issued a red alert to hospitals and clinics for possible injuries.
Following the example of the rest of the country, Lima thus prepared for a new day of protests that began with the death of two other protesters in the city of Macusani, where they burned a police station and a court. Meanwhile, they are 44 deaths since the protests began and more than a thousand injured.
The Arequipa airport, Peru’s second largest city, suspended its operations for security reasons. The railway service between Cuzco and the inca city Machu Picchua jewel of tourism in Peru, was also suspended, the operating company reported.
The “taking of Lima” in the middle of the state of emergency
President Boluarte decreed a state of emergency for thirty days also in Lima, Cuzco, Callao and Puno, a measure that suspends freedom of assembly and movement, as well as the intervention of the armed forces to “restore order.” However, this did not discourage protesters moving from across the country to the capital.
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“Las marches will continue. All the regions of the country have said that they will not return to their place of origin until Dina Boluarte resigns,” Gerónimo López, secretary general of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru who called the strike. “There will be no social peace. There is a social overflow in the town like never before, it is the cry of the Peruvian people,” he said.
The word of Dina Boluarte
In the midst of social chaos, in the run-up to the mobilization to the capital, President Dina Boluarte anticipated: “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, in calm,” he said Monday.
Boluarte was number two of Pedro Castillo, the first president of rural origin who was removed by Congress in the context of the political and institutional crisis that Peru has been going through for years. The former vice president, meanwhile, replaced him as established in the Magna Carta, and, although she belongs to the same party, she is considered a “traitorby the protesters.
The arrest of Castillo, ordered on December 7 after his failed self-coup, ignited the popular fuse: since then millions have turned to the streets to demand the resignation of Boluarte, a call for early elections, a Constituent Assembly and the implementation of freedom of the former president Castillo, for his part, is supported by the Peruvian interior, mostly native, which is distinguished from the elites of the capital.
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