The second Government of Boluarte, on the tightrope after the deadly clashes in Peru

• Peru The truce in the street breaks into a thousand pieces after 17 violent deaths in Puno

• Direct Witness Peru, on the verge of the fire

The uncontrolled volcano in Latin America, which erupted again in Peru after the Christmas truce, threatens to overwhelm the second government of President Dina Boluarte,

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And what is worse, it also intends to blow up the hopes of a 2023 transition to the presidential elections next year.

The Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, appeared on Tuesday with his ministers before Congress to carry out, with almost no support, the parliamentary vote of confidence, a session that was suspended after the uproar of the deputies of Peru Libre (PL), the Marxist party Leninist who supports the coup leader Pedro Castillo.

But Otárola had already signed his political death certificate that same Monday night, when he appeared before the country with an altered tone

during the seizure of the Juliaca airport, in the border region. from Puno, very close to Bolivia.

At least 17 people, most of them young, died from bullets and pellets, among them a minor, Nataly Aroquipa, a volunteer from an animal group who had come to the rescue of some dogs, and the doctor Marco Samillán, who was trying to treat a the wounded, almost 80 among the Protestants.

A day of violence without limits that began with the arrival of hundreds of Aymara peasants to Juliaca, which was overflowing at noon.

The events that took place echoed in an extreme way what had already happened during the assaults in December on the Apurímac or Ayacucho airports,

, determined to take the airport facilities by force.

With the morgue full and exhausted after a macabre day,

, also hit by the death of a baby (they did not allow their ambulance to pass through a roadblock) and by what seems the execution of non-commissioned officer José Soncco Quispe, whose body was found charred when previously a group of radicals recorded on video how he was forced to undress next to a fire.

His partner miraculously saved her life and is among the injured agents, over 75.

Behind the demonstrators appear the political interests of leaders of the radical left who support Castillo and who

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The now imprisoned former president has launched incendiary remarks at his followers in the southern Andes, areas forgotten for decades who felt that with the teacher from Cajamarca they had options for social improvement.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged the Peruvian state to "prevent and punish the excessive use of force in social protests."

The Episcopal Conference used similar terms to lament the "disnaturalization of the protest, resorting to illegality" and "the excessive use of force", while calling "to distinguish the just claims from others that do not allow national dialogue" .

In this way, the Catholic bishops not only recriminated the police repression, they also did so with the violence of the most radical, who seek the fall of the president and the imposition of an Assembly to change the Constitution.

The deaths that already occurred in 2020 during the struggle of young people on the street against President Manuel Merino confirmed the scant preparation of the police for these situations.

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