Peru's Interior Minister falls after brutal police repression in Puno

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President

has been forced to swear in three new ministers

granted to her second cabinet by Congress.

The change with the greatest political weight was made at the head of the

with the replacement of

accused of the brutal repression during the confrontations caused by the seizure of the

Part of the deputies who supported the government last Tuesday had demanded his head during the parliamentary debate.

The new head of the Interior is

who was already for four months during the mandate of the center-right

Romero previously served as general director of the

and was also in charge of the Anti-

with notable operations in both institutions, such as the capture of

of

The great challenge of the experienced Romero is to face the violence of the actions of those who protest without producing fatalities, which already add up to 49, according to the

Between the brutal repression of the forces of order and the confrontations provoked by the most radical, there have been

plus 7 caused by the roadblocks and a police non-commissioned officer, lynched and burned alive by a mob of a hundred people.

Boluarte and his Prime Minister,

have opted for the experienced lawyer

who has already served as Secretary General of the Presidency of the

to replace

whose resignation yesterday accelerated the ministerial crisis .

García said goodbye to the government with a letter in which he demanded a "change of faces in the direction of the country" and the electoral advance of general elections called for 2024, but on which a new advance is pending, according to political sources, for this same year.

The psychologist

replaces

who

resigned today to pressure the resignation of the entire government.

One of the great reproaches that Boluarte suffers is that the number of fatalities is greater than the days he has been at the head of the country, after the constitutional succession of the coup leader

At the moment his government remains on the brink of the abyss, with the conjunctural support in Congress from Fujimori, the right and the center.

Hours before the ministerial swearing in, the mission of the

urgently sent to the country made its recommendations public after several days of work on the ground.

The main call is to specify "urgent measures so that there is not one more death" and in search of a "broad and inclusive dialogue in the face of the climate of extreme social and political polarization."

The IACHR experts have collected a good number of reports denouncing military and police abuses.

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