The incidents, which included the attempt to take over the government of Junín, a region of which Huancayo is the capital, overwhelmed the protests of the fifth day of the national strike by the Heavy Transportation Guild and a similar protest by the agrarian organizations that isolated the city. with locks on their accesses.
Dozens of protesters also caused damage to the Mayor’s Office of Huancayo, whose officials were evacuated under the protection of the Police, who made an unspecified number of arrests, and later there were looting of supermarkets and various stores in the center of the Andean city.
In Lima, the trip to Huancayo of the Ministers of Foreign Trade, Roberto Sánchez; Agrarian Development, Óscar Zea, and Culture, Alejandro Salas, in order to strengthen dialogue in the face of the critical situation.
In the Andean region of Ayacucho, south of Junín, there were also protest demonstrations and roadblocks with striker trucks, which spread to other regions.
The farmers demand financing for the expensive agricultural tasks, after rejecting subsistence bonuses offered by the Government, with which they maintain a dialogue despite the lack of agreements and the blockades that keep hundreds of trucks and other vehicles stranded.
The carriers demand compensatory measures for the rise in fuel prices, among other demands, and the Government has yet to create a commission to talk with the strikers who have been blocking dozens of highways since last Monday.
President Pedro Castillo announced last Thursday measures to control the situation generated by the stoppage of freight transport and said that it is maintained by a small group of paid elements, which caused rejection by the leaders of the movement.
The transportation and agricultural conflicts were added to protests that block the accesses and the activities of important mining centers.
The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, recorded until March 28, in an evaluation of its Secretariat of Social Management and Dialogue, recorded the existence of 114 social conflicts, between active and latent and between the first seven active and 30 imminent.
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