Yes, life is the least important for those who continue to shield their acts of terror in protests. The violence of the radicals continues to prevail and yesterday, in Madre de Dios, it was about to end in tragedy when hundreds of vandals attacked the house of the regional governor, Luis Otsuka Salazar, with stones and sticks, and even tried to set it on fire.
The authority and his entire family were inside the house. The governor’s vehicle, parked in front, was destroyed. In the midst of the uncontrolled mob that approached the walls of his home and threw stones through the broken glass of the windows, not caring that a family was inside, Otsuka was forced to defend his people by firing up to eight shots. in the air.
At the time of the attack, eight unarmed police officers were guarding the house of the regional authority, who denounced that some extremists loaded rags with fuel, in an attempt to burn their home.
“They were throwing fuel at the wall. I have to defend my family. The next time they come, I’ll kill them. If the police won’t do it, I will.”was justified by the governor, who asked the Government to take action on the matter and avoid further acts of violence.
RETALIATE ATTACK
The extremists claimed Otsuka for having met last Thursday with Prime Minister Alberto Otárola, who visited the region that day and promised to unblock the roads. Madre de Dios continues with at least eight sections of the Interoceanic highway interrupted, which has generated a wave of shortages.
A similar attack had suffered a day before the headquarters of the regional government, located in Tambopata, where the clashes left seven policemen injured. A mob stoned the regional premises and set fire to two motorcycles and four vehicles that were outside. An agent was held by the extremists, although he was rescued hours later by his colleagues.
ONE MORE DEAD FROM BLOCKADES
But savagery and death are also on the tracks, in the roadblocks imposed by the protests. In La Oroya, Junín, Gilmer Yony Villar Torres (56) collapsed in the middle of the interrupted Central Highway and died after not being able to receive first aid in timebecause the unit where he was going with his wife from Ayacucho to Lima, where he was going to have a medical check-up, was stranded for several hours at kilometer 143, in the district of Morococha, in the province of Yauri.
Defense Minister Chávez Cresta reported that there are already 11 deaths as a result of the road blockade since the start of the protests in December.
And, in view of the blockade of the Panamericana Sur, in Ica, a pregnant woman had to be transferred to Lima through an airlift. The interruption of roads in Villacuri has stranded a tanker truck that transports medical oxygen to hospitals.
