A confrontation arose tonight in the surroundings of Kennedy Park in miraflores. A group of demonstrators who reached this area were dispersed with tear gas for interrupting vehicular traffic and some were arrested.
The protesters arrived in this district and marched through other areas such as the Balta and Larcomar descent, demanding the resignation of the president In Boluarte.
The mobilization of this Thursday, called “The Taking of Lima”, had precisely as one of its arrival points Kennedy Park in Miraflores. However, some groups of Protestants decided to go in the direction of the Congress.
University students and some social organizations came to the place despite the fact that at one point they were prevented from marching along Arequipa avenue, so they took other alternative routes.
Those detained by law enforcement officers were transferred to the Miraflores police station for the corresponding investigations.
38 injured and one dead
The Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero, reported that 38 injured left the demonstrations that took place this Thursday once morest the government of Dina Boluarte.
Romero expressed his condolences for the death of Juan Carlos Condori Arcana, who lost his life in the midst of the protests that took place at the Alfredo Rodríguez de Arequipa airport.
The head of the Mininter specified that 22 police officers were injured; while 16 civilians were injured. However, he assured that the protests began peacefully, but “later developed violently with physical and verbal attacks once morest the Police, motivating the use of force.”
Announce investigations
President Dina Boluarte congratulated the work of the National Police y affirmed that all acts of violence that occurred this Thursday will be investigated both in Lima as in other regions.
“Our National Intelligence Directorate is acting with the corresponding firmness and soon we will be together with the Prosecutor’s Office verifying and opening the tax files of those people who are generating acts of violence, destroying private and State property,” he said in a statement. which he held at the Government Palace.
Boluarte also described as false news the versions circulating on social networks regarding his supposed resignation. In this sense, he ruled out that the protests might break the democratic order.”The government is firm and its cabinet is more united than ever,” he said.
