2023-07-15 21:30:02
LIMA (AP) — Hundreds of citizens mobilized on Saturday through downtown Lima in a march called for peace that supports the government of President Dilma Boluarte, while a struggle committee ratified the call for a day of protests in search of his dismissal.
Dressed in white and carrying the Peruvian flag, the attendees proclaimed messages such as “no to hate, yes to peace”, “violence is not the solution, peace is”.
Jean Carlo Zárate, a young man who participated in the event, told The Associated Press that “we don’t want more violence in Peru.”
At the beginning of the week, social and union organizations announced the so-called “third takeover of Lima” once morest the Boluarte government, and called for demonstrations for Wednesday.
In an early attempt to measure forces, the congressman for the conservative Popular Renewal party, Alejandro Muñante, told the AP that the peace march “seeks to make clear the rejection of “messages of violence or separatism and division of the Peruvians”.
“It’s just a small group that wants to destabilize the country,” he said.
In contrast, Peru’s Unified National Committee for Struggle, which brings together regional left-wing organizations, issued a statement on Saturday calling for a “national strike” and calling for unity in the marches scheduled for July 19, with the slogan to remove the president.
He added that among the issues of his platform of struggle is the rejection of what they consider a lack of government planning that has paralyzed agriculture, increased corruption, citizen insecurity, multidimensional poverty and misgovernment that they qualify as a “dictatorship”. .
As a preventive measure, the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office ordered on Saturday that its units specialized in crime prevention, human rights and interculturality be active during and following the announced activities, in the center, north and south of Lima.
The Prime Minister of Peru, Alberto Otárola, said on Friday that he calls on the authorities “to apply, in accordance with the law, the legitimate use of force”, in what was considered a warning before the protests called.
Boluarte took office on December 7, 2022 following the dismissal of the then president Pedro Castillo, who previously wanted to dissolve the Legislative without success. The protests generated between December and February left dozens dead and many injured.
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