Meanwhile, the population of the southern Andean city of Juliaca turned last Monday’s funeral procession of 17 fallen civilians into a massive march calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, among other calls for political change.
Juliaca is governed by the three-day night curfew that has today declared a national mourning for those killed in the protest, although it left the issue in the hands of the police and, secondly, the armed forces.
In the southern Andean city of Cusco, the local airport was besieged late into the night by demonstrators, mostly young people.
Police prevented them from approaching the airport terminal and six agents and six injured protesters, along with six other civilians, were arrested by midday.
In Tacna, a region in the country’s far south, dissatisfaction burned down two freeway toll booths and blocked the Pan-American Highway, which runs along the entire Peruvian coast and in the region’s eponymous capital.
In Huanta, in the southern Andean region of Ayacucho, he ended his second day of a 48-hour strike and a crowded march, expressing solidarity with the city of Juliaca and demanding the resignation of Boluarte and further south, in Apurímac, Anahuaylas province, the laid work and held protest marches.
In southern Arequipa, the country’s second-largest city, the Panamericana Sur highway remains closed for the third day, and in the afternoon groups of protesters blocked the exit to Cusco and Puno.
Blockade points were also set up in the northern Amazon region of San Martín.
The Superintendence of Land Transport (Sutran), which oversees the protests, today reported 68 roadblocks and the Office of the Ombudsman’s oversight of the protests revealed 30 demonstrations, strikes and sit-ins in a total of 10 regions.
In the northern Andean province of Chota, a first group of members of the Rondas Campesinas (people’s security organizations) traveled to Lima to take part in protests in the conservative capital.
In Puno, Apurímac, Ayacucho and other parts of the country, peasant and urban groups are preparing to move to Lima for the same purpose, and Prime Minister Alberto Otárola reiterated that the government will not allow what he previously described as an uproar in the city .
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