The mobilization has not been weakening since the dismissal of President Pedro Castillo on December 7, while at least 42 demonstrators were killed. To the calls for the resignation of the interim president Dina Boluarte and the elected officials of the Congress are added requests for social justice.
by Amanda Chaparro (Cuzco (Pérou), correspondence)
You have to see them, in the vicinity of Cuzco, go on a truck, on these winding paths of the Andes, from their provinces. And head for this regional capital (south-east) of Peru, Friday January 13, suspended at the doors or hung at caliphon on the walls of vehicles that tan. National flags in shoulder straps, whistles, and each car crossed, horns and these same slogans, at the place of the interim president: “Boluarte: resigning!”, “Dina assassin!”.
In this mobilization, which has not weakened since the dismissal of President Pedro Castillo, on December 7, 2022, they are peasants, young or old, hilling hands and features marked by work and cold altitude. There are women, children, too. They require immediate elections. “May Dina go away, let them close the congress, let them all go,” fulminates Julia Tupayupanqui, once on the ground. Maria Condori, energetic farmer, in turn: “Dina, you may decree the state of emergency, a curfew, suppress in the blood, we are not going to be silent. She says he wants peace but how, With so many murdered citizens? “On Saturday, the government decreed the state of emergency for thirty days in the capital and several regions, including that of Cuzco.
” The police shoot us on the orders of the president “
The country is in mourning. Forty-two demonstrators have been killed since December 7, most of them, by firearms. Eight others have perished on the sidelines of mobilizations, including a burnish police officer in his vehicle. They were students, workers, itinerant sellers. Fourteen victims were under 22 years old. In Cuzco, a 21 -year -old teenager, is in the hospital, between life and death. He received thirty-six projectile impacts. One more testimony in the level of police and military repression. “It could have been my children, breath, moved and angry, Marco Chavez, fifties, on a strike stake. The police shoot us on the orders of the president.”
In the city center of Cuzco, a gigantic black and white flag of several meters, is dragged at arm’s length through the alleys. The ancient Inca capital, a jewel of architecture well propret, is more accustomed to receiving millions of tourists in transit towards the Machu Picchu, than to see this organic procession, from peasants in ojotas – to surge – the rubber sandals -, well put In their woolen jackets, bales on their backs, or these Quechuas women with embroidered petticoats and colored headgear. These workers too, these teachers.
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