• Protests The takeover of Lima turned into a pitched battle to take over Congress

  • Peru The indigenous finalize the seizure of Lima to force the resignation of Dina Boluarte

"The government is firm and its cabinet is more united than ever. The situation is under control."

President Dina Boluarte

, accompanied by her most powerful ministers, appeared before the country at the end of a day that will go down in history as the failed takeover of Lima.

Neither the protesters filled the streets beyond a few thousand, nor could the most radical take the Congress of Deputies by force, the most reviled body in the country.

"Acts of violence will not go unpunished, we will act with the full weight of the law. You want to break the rule of law, generate chaos and disorder to seize the power of the nation. You are wrong," the president stood up to those who were her former colleagues from the radical left benches in Parliament.

In parallel,

the successor of the coup leader Pedro Castillo called for "good dialogue with the people who do want to work in peace

. "

At that same time, a raging fire consumed a building in the center of Lima, a few meters from where a pitched battle had taken place, broadcast on all channels, thanks also to the fact that the Mayor's Office of Lima gave up the signal from its cameras installed in streets.

And what Peru saw for the first time was the brutal onslaught of hundreds of violent people, who shot cobblestones and stones

with their Andean slingshots or struck with gigantic spears against the police forces that for the first time professionally confronted the protesters.

There

were also several attacks by angry mobs against journalists

who were covering the events on the street.

A house on fire, during the protests in Lima. ERNESTO BENAVIDESAFP

The balance of the national strike and the so-called takeover of Lima was

one person dead in another part of the country, 16 civilians and 22 policemen injured

.

In this way, the provisional death toll since the protests began rises to 55: 43 protesters killed during clashes with police and military, 10 civilians killed due to roadblocks and a policeman burned alive by a violent mob. .

The Prosecutor's Office is keeping an investigation open against the president and her two

premiers

for genocide, homicide and injuries.

Not only the broadcast of the clashes in the center of the capital made the most violent ugly, but also the evidence that

the assault on the airports of Cusco, Puno and Arequipa, during which the last young man died, was planned in advance

, as and as confirmed by the government.

The Minister of Labor added that 70% of the country worked 100%, so the

protest was centralized above all in the southern Andes

, between Puno, Cusco, Arequipa and Apurímac, Boluarte's homeland.

Instead,

145 highways remain blocked by opponents of the president

.

A good part of the protesters on Thursday in Lima plan to continue in the capital, although last night they were looking for a new refuge after agreeing with the authorities to abandon the facilities taken at the San Marcos University.


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