They abandon the town they claim to protect. The ‘indefinite strike’ called for next January 4 tries to appear to be spontaneous and have a social origin. However, their demands are far from being social or economic demands but, rather, they seek their own political agenda to try to recover power.
Once the truce with the government of Dina Boluartedifferent organizations have been coordinating to demand the release of the former coup leader Pedro Castillowho tried to unconstitutionally dissolve Congress and “reorganize” institutions such as the Constitutional Court, the Judiciary and the Public Ministry.
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The calls come mostly from regions such as Puno, Ayacucho, Cajamarca and Loreto, which in 2021 registered an increase in people living in poverty, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
But that seems not to be the priority. Instead, more than 70 leaders of the Southern Macroregion of Peru preferred to announce a protest for next Wednesday, January 4 to demand the Constituent Assembly, the resignation of the president Dina Boluartethe closure of Congress, the advancement of elections and the freedom of the coup plotter Castle.
Pedro Castillo is being held in the Barbadillo prison. (Photo: Justice TV)
It has even gone to the extreme of promoting the “insurgency” and attacking the authorities. “The presence of ministers or representatives of the illegitimate government of boluarte (…). Any infiltrated police or military will be captured and executed,” read a statement from the promoters of the new protest.
The needs of its population regarding education, water or health went to the background. This is because the partners of Castle They are behind the agitations. From Puno, one of the main promoters of the radical protest is César Tito Rojas, a professor close to the long-standing ex-president. Tito was a leader of Movadef in Puno, according to the planillions presented to the JNE, when the political arm of Sendero Luminoso sought to become a party.
“Starting on January 4, the fight must be resumed (…) against an illegitimate government that has betrayed the people. Now the new Constitution is no longer a priority,” Tito Rojas told local radio.
Tito appears before the media as organization secretary of Sutep-Base Puno. However, the teachers’ union itself denied this and rejected “misinformation that only favors extremist groups.”
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Cesar Tito Rojas with Pedro Castillo. (Source: Peru21)
In Arequipa, the doctor Jorge del Carpio Lazo appears as the promoter of the new wave of marches, who was accused by the terrorist Ulser Pillpa of being part of Sendero Luminoso, as reported by El Comercio in May 2019. However, according to the same outlet, Carpio denied clearly have ties to that terrorist group.
At the meeting of leaders of the South Macroregion —held last Wednesday in Arequipa— it was Del Carpio who read the agreements before the press.
“(Against Boluarte) we demand criminal punishment for crimes against humanity for the murders in the people’s struggle for their legitimate right to protest and prison for the murderers,” he said.
Today there will be a meeting in Ayacucho, organized by the People’s Defense Front (Fredepa), in order to define the “fighting measures” and “activity reports” with a view to the mobilizations on January 4. The president of Fredepa is Rocío Leandro, accused of participating in the murder of Pedro Huilca. In addition, this newspaper revealed that she distributed money for the illegal coca growers to move to Lima last December.
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ASK TO PRIORITIZE PEACE
The Minister of Culture, Leslie Urteaga, yesterday invited Peruvians who believe in democracy to follow the only way to improve the country: dialogue and peace. “We respect the protest; However, we do condemn the blockades and violence because it affects the production chain, of which the culture sector is also a part. Our country cannot stop, ”she stressed.
Urteaga added that the December protests caused a loss of more than S/5 million in the ruins of Machu Picchu, in Cusco.
In his turn, the new governor of Puno, Richard Ancco, asked the population to carry out peaceful marches and not acts of violence or attacks against public and private property. “The protests must be peaceful but if someone gets out of it, the State has no right to shoot,” he said.
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