protests. leaders of ollantaytambo (Cusco), Lircay (Huancavelica), Llochegua (Ayacucho) and Chincheros (Apurimac) They explain the reasons for the mobilizations. There is a unanimous rejection of the deaths of the regime.
-I am a mother. Imagine they kill my son.
Women. Mother. Cusqueña. Lenny Channel has come to Lime along with a delegation from Ollantaytambo. Against the narrative of the supposed absence of voices and faces behind the marches, she is together with Juan Yupanqui, president of the ronderos of her district. They are not the only ones.
Saturday of social protest. Crisólogo Chávez, secretary of the Peasant Federation of Chincheros (Apurimac), It also moves along Abancay Avenue. At another extreme is Nélida Aguirre, from the Federation of Agricultural Producers (FEPA) of the vraem. Later, Mardonio Lima, vice president of a community in Lircay, will be present. (Huancavelica). All with their delegations. These are their voices.
for the resignation
Lenny Canal Núñez del Prado tells that the citizens of Ollantaytambo (Cusco) accepted some protest mobilizations when Dina Boluarte assumed the presidency.
“But when the deaths began, we said to ourselves: let’s do something.” It was then that there were many more actions of protest, until Wednesday the 25th when they arrived in Lima to join the other delegations from the south.
“We are already in a Government militarized because they are killing people everywhere.” questions Lenny, for whom the resolution of the crisis necessarily passes through the output of Dina Boluarte and the prompt call for elections.
Juan Yupanqui, president of the Ollantaytambo ronderos, expresses himself in Quechua and It also demands the immediate resignation of Dina Boluarte.
“Resignation! We are asking you, in good faith, to resign. You have betrayed your people, Dina (Boluarte). You are killing people. You are a traitor, ”she laments herself.
Yupanqui specifies that if Boluarte remains in office and if Congress does not approve prompt elections, there will be a greater mobilization. “We are going back (to Lima), we are thousands, I don’t think they will support us,” he warns.
From the south, thousands of Peruvians traveled to the capital to take part in the protests. Photo: Photo composition: LR/Luis Gallardo/LR
against crimes
Crisólogo Chávez recounts that in Chincheros (Apurímac) there were protests, but everything worsened with the deaths. Two were murdered on December 11 in Andahuaylas and the repression reached his district the next day, with the crime of a 16-year-old teenager. “I have seen the relatives cry. I have seen the whole town cry, ”he recalls.
The Peasant Federation of Chincheros called an assembly in the Plaza de Armas of the province of chincheros. They also met in the Ancohuallo district. The agreement was to travel to Lima for the protests and the main demand: the resignation of Dina Boluarte and the departure of the congressmen.
The leader Crisólogo Chávez questions the speech of the president Dina Boluarte, that seeks to stigmatize protesting communities.
“She is from Apurimeña and wants to ignore the idiosyncrasies of deep Peru. It must be because he has never lived like us”, he questions.
shared solidarity
Huancavelica also complied with protest actions since December. This time, a sector of Lircay’s citizens chose to travel to Lima. They were seen in the center on Saturday, with their chopkjas costumes and signs rejecting the deaths caused by the forces of order.
Mardonio Lima, vice president of the San Juan de Dios community, specifies that there was organizational coordination to adopt the agreement, because the deaths did not stop.
“We make the decisions as a community. We saw that, in Lima, our brothers were fighting, so we too, as Peruvians, decided to join them. We will all fight together until Mrs. Dina Boluarte retires”, he comments.
During the week, another group of Chopkja community members from paucará also complied with measures of force, such as the blockade of the central Road.
Leaders. Crisólogo Chávez, from Chincheros (Apurímac), and Mardonio Lima, from Huancavelica. Photo: Wilber Huacasi
The present Vraem
Part of Dina Boluarte’s speech has also been marked by the attempt to associate the protests with smuggling in Puno or drug trafficking in the Vraem areas.
Nélida Aguirre, from the FEPA fighting committee, responds: “She (Boluarte) has never set foot in Vraem. We have vans to get around, yes, because we live in the jungle and the roads are abandoned.”
At this point in the crisis, the leaders propose the resignation of Boluarte as a non-negotiable aspect after the deaths generated by the regime.
reactions
Lenny Canal, Ollantaytambo – Cusco
“I am a mother, I am a daughter. Imagine they kill my son. Imagine the pain of those mothers and those children who lost their loved ones. He is tattooed on his heart the pain that this Government caused them ”.
Nelida Aguirre, Llochegua – Ayacucho
“They want to classify us as terrorists just for protesting. Lady (Dina Boluarte), we are not terrorists, you are ending the lives of our youth; that is terrorism”.
