The Ciudad Universitaria greeted them with applause and slogans as the three buses pulled in full of residents from Canchis province, one of 14 in the southern Andean region of Cusco, one of the strongholds of the protests that resumed on January 4.
More than 300 people from Cusco, many rural people, camped in the university gardens and from first light light mattresses, groceries, fruits, vegetables and other products provided by the fraternity of the oldest university in America began to arrive… for guests .
Meanwhile, buses, light units and trucks full of protesters from regions such as Apurímac, Ayacucho and various regions continued to arrive, while hundreds of delegations organized by the provinces were on the move, mainly from the south of the country, but they also announced that they come from the north, the center and the Amazon.
In all cities they were greeted by their cities with speeches and emotional hugs and even tears and between red and white Peruvian and colorful Andean flags.
Previously, the communities of travelers collected money to pay for transportation and provided travelers with food for the journey.
The cities along the route cheer them on with applause, the caravans are greeted by the cities along the route, which provide them with water and food for the journey.
Along the way, they also suffered inconveniences and delays due to successive police stops verifying passengers’ identities, and in several cases arrested those who had warrants for their arrest on minor charges.
Faced with the possibility that these controls could prevent the protesters from arriving in Lima, the Office of the Ombudsman reminded the government and the police not to violate the right of provincials to travel to the capital.
In Lima, an intense media campaign by far-right voices insists on assuming a priori that the protesters are coming to provoke violence and asking the government to take more drastic action against them, despite repeatedly saying they are coming to protest peacefully.
On Twitter, a provincial mother urged protesters to please come back alive, alluding to the fact that there have been 48 deaths during two waves of protests, the first of which last December, after former President Pedro Castillo was replaced by his vice president was , Dina Boluarte.
The visitors, like the General Federation of Labour, are demanding Boluarte’s resignation and his replacement by a new President of the Congress of the Republic, who will reach consensus and guarantee neutrality in the early parliamentary elections, which they are also calling for to be held soon.
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