Lima (EFE).- A new demonstration toured the streets of downtown Lima for another day this Thursday to demand the resignation of the president Dina Boluartethe closure of Congress and the advancement of elections, a protest which included communities from various parts of Peru.
From the district of Caraybamba, in the southern department of Apurímac, Acho Hancco arrived in the Peruvian capital, who told EFE, while the crew he shouted “Dina, the people repudiate you”, that the people are taking to the streets to claim what belongs to them.
«Dina Boluarte has to leave because she has not gone with Pedro Castillo’s program, but is practicing Keiko Fujimori’s. two hundred years of Constitutiontwo hundred years of looting by multinationals and the people are still poor, that’s why we claim what belongs to us,” he said.
While Congress continued to debate the electoral advance as every day this week, hundreds of people gathered in Plaza Dos de Mayo and advanced through various downtown avenues, all close to the Legislative headquarters.
“A handful of criminals to the Peruvian State want to put it in their pocket, that is why we are not going to allow it. If we are going to die too, we are going to die. It doesn’t matter. Half of Peru will die defending our homeland,” cried the spokesman from the delegation of the mining district of Chalhuahuacho, also in Apurímac, where Boluarte is also a native.
He explained that, given the contempt of the “capitalinos” and the president towards the Peruvians of the south, “they are not going to release” the resources natural of their regions, because, according to their words, the elites are only interested in their lithium, uranium, copper and gold.
“We are not going to release a gram of our minerals (…) We are not going to release our resources that we have in each department of southern Peru,” exclaimed the spokesman, who did not give his name.
They tried to get to Congress, where at that time the parliamentarians They were discussing a bill, which in addition to bringing forward the elections, included the referendum to call for a constituent assembly, one of the main demands of the protesters.
«We are Inca blood, as Inca blood we are not going to get tired until these criminals leave, that there is a constituent assembly. Until then, we are not going to get tired, “he said.
The Ombudsman of Peru confirmed this Thursday that a minor died in an event linked to the road blockade of anti-government protests on December 12 in Caylloma, in the southern department of Arequipa, bringing the number of deaths to 66 since The demonstrations began in December.
According to data from this institution, 47 people who participated in the protests died as a result of clashes, while a policeman died after being burned alive by protesters.
Added to these victims are eleven deaths in events related to roadblocks, including the minor confirmed today, as well as a woman who died in the northern region of La Libertad, confirmed by the Police.
Likewise, Boluarte announced the death of another patient who needed to reach Lima but was held up in the blockades, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Acnur) reported the death of four Haitians, in addition to a confirmed unborn baby. by Unicef. EFE
