Amid renewed clashes between protesters and police at anti-government protests across the country, police evacuated a university in Lima and arrested more than 200 people. The Peruvian broadcaster “RPP Noticias” reported this, citing Chief Prosecutor Alfonso Barrenechea on Saturday (local time).
Those arrested were charged with illegally entering the campus of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, one of America’s most important and oldest universities. According to “RPP Noticias”, they had come to the capital from the cities of Puno and Cusco in the south of the Andes country to Protests against the government of interim president Dina Boluarte Participate.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Peru called on police to be proportionate after the operation. Several dozen people have been killed in the South American country since the protests began in December.
The bloody protests have serious consequences for tourism in Peru. According to a statement, the Ministry of Culture has closed access to the famous Inca ruins of Machu Picchu “given the current social situation in our region”. According to the Peruvian news agency “Agencia Andina”, more than 400 stranded tourists were brought to Cusco.
The demonstrators, many from the impoverished south of the country, are demanding the resignation of interim president Boluarte, the dissolution of Congress and the release of imprisoned ex-president Pedro Castillo. Wanting to avoid a no-confidence vote in December, the former village school teacher dissolved the Congress. Parliament subsequently removed him from office. He was arrested on charges of attempted coup and is in custody.
(yam/sda/dpa)
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