The workers grouped in the three trade union centrals of Argentina, the CGT, CTA and the Autonomous CTA, mobilized this Thursday at the headquarters of the Peruvian embassy in Buenos Aires, under the slogans “solidarity with the Peruvian people” and in demand of “Democracy and peace” in that nation and “enough with repression and death”, union spokesmen reported.
The mobilization began at 4:00 p.m. at the Peruvian diplomatic headquarters, located on Del Libertador and Austria avenues in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.informed the union organizations through a joint communiqué.
Within this framework, the Secretary General of the Autonomous CTA, Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy, pointed out that “the Fujimorist Constitution (referring to former president Alberto Fujimori) strongly limits the capacity of the rulers, and in that country there is a Congress controlled by the Fujimorist forces conditioning Pedro Castillo in the constitutional exercise for which he was elected”.
“We are demanding that this coup be reversed, Pedro Castillo be released and all constitutional rights in the country be restored,” Godoy added.
Also, a letter was delivered to the Peruvian ambassador in Argentina, Peter Camino Cannock, signed by Adolfo Aguirre, Secretary of International Relations of the Autonomous CTA; Roberto Baradel, Secretary of International Relations of the CTA, and Gerardo Martínez, Secretary of International Relations of the CGT.
In the document they requested “as brothers of the Great Homeland and overseers of democracy in our region” to stop “the wave of violence that has already caused numerous deaths and damage that has been taking place due to the action of the police forces.”
And they warned that “the very social and institutional fabric of the Peruvian people as a whole is at stake.”
Finally, they expressedu support the “national popular civic strike” called by the Peruvian CGT and the National Assembly of the Peoples of Peru for this Thursday.
“In the framework of the general strike called by the Peruvian CGT, together with civil society tomorrow -for today-, together with the comrades of the CGT and the two CTAs we are going to be mobilizing at the embassy of Peru to express our solidarity with that brotherly people and we are going to demand an end to the repression of the Peruvian people,” Daniel Catalano, general secretary of ATE-Capital, a member of the CTA, had announced to Télam.
Catalano remarked that the mobilization also called for “instances of participation in Peru so that President (Pedro) Castillo can be released, and that the democratic framework and the institutions that are being violated today be guaranteed.”.
“We demand that the army and the police abandon the repression of the Peruvian people to guarantee that this community can solve the democratic problems as its people demand and we will also show solidarity with the more than 60 families of the militants who lost their lives in the social protests, 60 murders in defense of democracy in Peru” , listed Catalano.
For days, part of the Peruvian population has taken to the streets in different parts of the country since the impeachment and arrest of former President Castillo in early December after his attempt to close the Legislature and establish an emergency government with suspension of constitutional guarantees.
Among the main demands of the protesters is the departure of Dina Boluarte -until then Castillo’s ‘number two’-, the holding of new elections and the preparation of a new Constitution for Peru.
