Peru protests strand sick, hungry tourists in remote town (Reuters - 12/15/2022)


Dec 15 (Reuters) - Protests triggered by Peru's developing political crisis have stranded dozens of tourists, including children, in a remote mountain town for over 48 hours as locals refuse passage to Bolivia, a member of the group told Reuters.

About six buses and sixty people became stranded in the Andean town of Checacupe, in Peru's Cusco region, in the early hours of Dec. 13, said Wilmaris Villarroel, a Costa Rican-Venezuelan alpinist whose bus was stopped en route to La Paz, Bolivia.

The December 7, 2022, ouster of former President Pedro Castillo has sparked deadly street protests across Peru, as well as highway and train blockades that have stranded hundreds of tourists at Peru's Machu Picchu ruins. (more)

Tags: #Peru # Protests #Blockades #Tourists #Machu Picchu

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