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Peru: Pedro Castillo facing his first social conflict

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Drivers and residents demonstrating on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Monday, April 4, 2022. AP - Martin Mejia

By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |

Mikael Ponge Follow

3 mins

A curfew was introduced on April 5, 2022 in Lima, the capital, and the neighboring port city of Callao, after violent demonstrations the day before by carriers against rising fuel prices.

Several axes were blocked;

clashes broke out.

The president of the radical left faces the first social conflict of his mandate.

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The curfew announced in Lima and Callao, this Tuesday, April 5, 2022, affects some 10 million inhabitants.

It will be maintained until midnight in the face of "acts of violence that certain groups have wanted to provoke and in order to restore peace and order", declared Pedro Castillo, during a televised address broadcast last night (April 4, 2022). .

Clashes between demonstrators and the police erupted Monday, April 4, in several areas of Peru during a strike movement launched by transporters, the first social conflict facing the head of state since his election in July 2021 in head of the Latin American country.

The protests, which have caused roadblocks and a suspension of classes in several regions,

were triggered by the rising cost of fuel and tolls as well as food prices.

In Ica, 300 km from Lima, several toll booths were set on fire on the Panamericana, one of the main roads in the country.  

,” said the Peruvian president, whose government had already abolished a fuel tax last week for the sake of appeasement.

Haitian civil society renews its proposals against crime

A week after the great mobilization of March 29, 2022 against insecurity and kidnappings, the first resolutions resulting from this movement are addressed, this week, to the government of Ariel Henry by the organizations which initiated the march, explains

, editor-in-chief of

.

Apart from strengthening police structures and the presence of officers on the streets, these organizations reaffirm the need to ban tinted windows on all vehicles, including those of the police.

Any ignorance of these recommendations will give the population the right to defend themselves in their own way, which could open the door to general chaos, according to these organizations.

For its part, the National Association of Haitian Media calls on the population to wake up against acts of crime.

Galapagos people discovering their islands

Living in the Galapagos without knowing why this archipelago is a natural heritage of Humanity, why scientists are still discovering new species of giant tortoises or pink iguanas there, it is possible.

Unlike foreign tourists who embark on multi-thousand dollar cruises to remote islands only accessible by boat, there are few opportunities for locals.

So places on luxury cruises are reserved for them in order to discover the treasures of their habitat.

The tourist company Lindblad Expeditions has, for years, reserved cabins available for teachers of the archipelago or long-time inhabitants who have never visited the islands.

In September 2021,

60 farmers and inhabitants of Puerto Ayora aged 30 to 80 were thus entitled to 5 days of an exceptional and free cruise.

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