Last weekend, 19 residents of Chillihuani, in the district of Cusipata, province of Quispicanchi, Cusco region, were arrested and accused of the murder of resident Flavio Illatinco, in the midst of a dispute over the collection of fees to the Mountain of Seven Colors.
Since then, the 18 adults and one minor are being investigated for the alleged crimes of kidnapping, torture and aggravated homicide, Thus, last Wednesday, the minor OLCH.Y. (16) was admitted to the Juvenile Center of Marcavalle – Cuscoordering his preventive confinement for four months.
The deputy provincial prosecutor, Yeudaya Chinchazo, from the Provincial Family Prosecutor’s Office of Quispicanchi, directed the urgent and necessary proceedings, reaching well-founded elements of conviction. which link the minor to the bloody events that occurred in recent days in the district of Cusipata, for the control of the administration of access to the natural attraction.
It is worth mentioning that the preventive detention hearing for the other people involved in the murder of the resident, Flavio Illatinco, They will hold a pretrial detention hearing today in Cusco, which will determine whether or not they will be transferred to the Qenccoro Cusco prison while the investigation continues.
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The Mountain of Seven Colors, nestled in the Vilcanota Mountain Range, southeast of the city of Cusco, It has become one of the main tourist attractions in the entire country, due to the formidable shapes, colors and landscapes that a visit to this site offers.
However, since its ‘discovery’ as a tourist site, Problems with its administration and the collection of income have been constant, Access was closed on several occasions, since the administration of the site falls entirely on the local community members, as it is an ‘ancestral territory’, and there were endless disputes over money.
It is in the midst of this panorama that the community members of Chillihuani and Llaqto, located in the district of Cusipata, province of Quispicanchi, were part of a working table with the Cusco authorities in order to put a stop to these disputes, table that finally broke, causing more disturbances among the residents.
Thus, on Sunday morning, the authorities of Cusipata, together with the Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, organized a search and rescue operation for four Llaqto community members who had been reported missing after a fight the day before.finally finding one of them dead and the other three wounded.
On this matter, the Foreign Trade and Tourism Management of Cusco urges tourism operators not to send national or foreign tourists to the Rainbow Mountain through any of the accesses, either through Cusipata or Pitumarca, since the situation is unsustainable at the moment and the safety of visitors could be at risk.
