Dina Boluarte was invested by president on Wednesday, December 7, after the attempt to dissolve the Parliament by his predecessor Pedro Castillo.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Two people died and at least five people were injured on Sunday 11 December, in growing demonstrations against the new president of Peru Dina Boluarte. “I urge the population to stay calm,” said Interior Minister César Cervantes on RPP radio.
Peru has been plunged into the crisis since the failed coup and the arrest of former president Pedro Castillo last week.
Protests have multiplied across the country this weekend, especially in northern cities and Andes.
Thousands of people mobilized in the streets of Cajamarca, Arequipa, Tacna, Andahuaylas, Cusco and Puno, demanding the liberation of the former head of state and new elections and calling for a national strike.
In Andahuaylas (South), clashes ended in a balance sheet of 20 injured (16 civilians and 4 police officers). Violence resumed on Sunday with tear gas shots of the police and stone jets of demonstrators who notably tried to take the airport of this city.
in Lima, between 1,000 and 2,000 people demonstrated before the Congress with the cries of “Castillo you are not alone, the people support you” and brandishing signs accusing “Dina (Boluart) and the Congress” to be “corrupt rats”.
prison letter from the former president
Friday, Ms. Boluarte had not excluded to convene early elections in order to find a peaceful outing to the political crisis.
At the same time, the theory, advanced by the former chief of staff and the lawyer of Mr. Castillo according to which the former president was drugged without his knowledge during his attempted coup d’etat, fascinates the country .
In a letter that Mr. Castillo would have written in prison, he assures that a doctor and nurses “camouflaged” and a “faceless” prosecutor (hooded) “forced” him to take blood samples Without its consent, evoking a “Machiavellian plan”.
The president of the Institute of Legal Medicine, Francisco Brizuela, told him that the ex-president had “refused to submit” to tests.