The strike in Cusco will continue this Tuesday the 19th despite the announcement of a visit by Pedro Castillo (PHOTOS)

After an extensive meeting in Cusco, last Monday night the representatives of the main unions and unions of the city, agreed to continue with their 48-hour strike planned for the 18th and 19th of the current month, so that on Tuesday the The main access and exit routes from Cusco will remain closed.

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This initiative was endorsed by local leaders, who on Monday afternoon met with Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, who apparently did not convince them with his offer of a decentralized session of the Council of Ministers this Thursday in Cusco and the visit of President Pedro Castillo himself on Friday.

Through an act signed at the premises of the Federated Center of Physicians of Peru – Cusco, the protesters agreed to continue with the blockades and marches this Tuesday, in addition to declaring as ‘persona non grata’ the congressman for Cusco Luis Aragónwho in the afternoon was quick to say that the strike had been lifted.

TOURISM SECTOR, THE MOST AFFECTED.

Undoubtedly, one of the sectors most affected by this measure is tourism. If thousands of nationals and foreigners were harmed by a recent strike in Cusco and even a strike at the airport, now the situation with this 48-hour immobilization has become unsustainable.

So much so that all train departures and returns to and from Machu Picchu have been suspended by the two operators on this route. From PeruRail confirmed to Mail that protesters have taken the railway at the height of Chilca in Ollantaytambocommunity members are in the middle of laying with sticks and stones preventing the passage of the wagons.

For those who arrive by air or need to leave the city, the Police have launched the so-called ‘Tourist Corridor’, by which they escort travelers to and from the Cusco air terminal, even transporting locals and tourists in patrol cars and buses for police use.

the president of the Cusco Chamber of Commerce, Edy Cuéllar, referred to Mail that for each day of stoppage in Cusco, the region lost an average of two million soles, between the closing of businesses and the sale of products and services, delimiting that 75% of cusqueños benefit directly or indirectly from tourism, which is the sector hardest hit by the pandemic and by demonstrations.

FACT:

– Twenty guilds and unions in Cusco have called for a 48-hour strike this Monday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 19 throughout the Imperial Region, requesting, above all, the closure of Congress, the change of the Political Constitution of 1993 and a halt to the increase in take-out bread products.