Cusco airport, leading to the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, was closed by “prevention”, while seventeen victims of violence linked to demonstrations were buried in the south of the country.
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The protest movement against power in Peru does not know any respite. In the aftermath of a day of violence which killed one of the demonstrators and more than 50 injured – including 19 police officers – according to the mediator’s office, rallies and road blockages continued on Thursday, January 12, in ten Twenty-five regions of the country.
Since the start of the crisis, a month ago, the clashes between demonstrators and the police have left at least 42 dead, including a burnful police officer live by the crowd, and hundreds of wounded.
Until now, the capital Lima was at the end of the afternoon the theater of yet another demonstration demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and early elections. “Not one more death, at low the civil-military dictatorship”, demanded the demonstrators on social networks by calling for this rally.
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a Cusco, former capital of the Inca Empire and a high place of tourism in Peru with the Citadel of Machu Picchu, many police officers and military are positioned around the airport which manages the second largest air traffic in the country With nearly a hundred weekly flights connecting Cusco to Lima. An intrusion attempt was contained Wednesday with tear gas.
But, fearing a rehearsal, the Ministry of Transport suspended on Thursday “preventively” and “for an indefinite period” air operations. A Marriott hotel, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, was the target of stone jets during a night walk.
This is the second time that the airport has been closed since the start of the protest movement in early December against the new president, after the dismissal of the ex-president of the left Pedro Castillo by the Parliament. In December, Cusco airport had suspended its operations for five days.
In the Puno region, on the Bolivian border, epicenter of the protest movement on the banks of Lake Titicaca, seventeen victims of clashes with the police in Juliaca were buried. Gathered in a circle around a red coffin, relatives of one of the victims held posters on which was written: “Dina Assassin corrupt” or “We are not terrorists but citizens who claim justice”.
“It is a pain to lose a member of his family for having fought for his rights”, testifies to the agency France-Presse Fidel Huancollo. The 48 -year -old man cries a dead cousin in the clashes.
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a young manifestor 16 years old, hospitalized since Monday, died Thursday in Juliaca, bringing at eighteen the total number of civilians killed in the city, where a three-day night curfew was decreed on Tuesday.
The demonstrators also claim the dissolution of the Parliament and the convocation of a constituent assembly. The prosecution opened on Tuesday an investigation for “genocide” presumed against Dina Boluarte. It concerns facts of “genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries, committed during the demonstrations” of December and January.
Wednesday, a delegation from the Inter -American Commission for Human Rights (CIDH) arrived in Lima to assess “the situation of human rights in the context of social protests”.
Dina Boluarte is the sixth person to occupy the Peruvian presidency in five years, in a country which experiences a permanent political crisis enamelled with suspicions of corruption.