Southern Peru reports a dry strike on the 27th and a MAS deputy says that it is not appropriate to militarize

All regions of southern Peru They fulfilled this Monday the 27th day of the dry strike promoted in this area by the peasants of that country. From Bolivia, the deputy from Alto, Juanito Angulo (MAS), declared that the mobilization of troops that is carried out in that country towards the border with Bolivia is not appropriate.

“There are mobilizations (of troops) that do not correspond, What corresponds at this moment is to attend to the request of the Peruvian people who are demanding elections before their government. However, to distract and to justify the events that have occurred with more than 60 deaths, they accuse our country and our former president,” said the pro-government deputy.

On December 7, 2022, The Peruvian Congress declared the vacancy of then President Pedro Castillo Terrones and Dina Boluarte assumed the Presidency. Since then, various social organizations have called protest actions. Gradually, they have raised their demands, which include general elections, a Constituent Assembly and the closure of Congress.

The Peruvian south mobilized a large part of its population to demand the announced demands. This area has the longest border with Bolivia.

According to the data that arrived from Puno, all the populations and intermediate cities fulfill a dry strike that means the closure of all services, commerce and transport. There are no markets and the population goes out to get supplies in the early hours of the morning.

The story of the peasants is very similar to what happened in Bolivia in 2003 when the resignation of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was requested, since in La Paz there was no supply due to the fierce peasant blockade and the families went out to buy what they needed in the early hours of the morning at precise sidereals.

The Peruvian community members who spoke from those latitudes reported that the cities are empty and They denied that there is a mobilization of troops on the border with Bolivia, Well, in Desaguadero, a neighboring town, there is only a blockade by peasants that prevents any movement between the two countries.