Andahuaylas community members arrive in Lima to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte (La República [Spanish] - 1/16/2023)

Andahuaylas community members arrive in Lima to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte (Spanish)

Thousands greeted the caravan with tears and applause. Along the way, other residents joined the Apurímac delegation. Meanwhile, detainees in Cusco have been released. They denounced that they were attacked at the police station.

Heading to Lima: the mostly indigenous population left Andahuaylas in defense of their demands. They are a part of the 128 indigenous communities in Andahuaylas Photo: diffusion

Elizabeth Prado

In a caravan made up of dozens of vehicles, thousands of community members from the Apurimac Province of Andahuaylas left last Sunday for Lima in defense of their platform of struggle: the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress, general elections this 2023 and constituent assembly.

Before leaving, they met at the Andahuaylas fairground to say goodbye to their land. Some leaders spoke in Quechua and Spanish. They said that they were going to the capital of the Republic to recover their homeland and that they were tired of being trampled on.

Student Joel Vargas Farfán said that the deceased will always be remembered, as will the men and women who decided to move to Lima on behalf of their communities, "because it depends on today that things change."

He questioned the authorities of Lima for their disdain of the community's population.

“Those authorities and policemen may have studied at the university, in the institutes, but they have no education. They don't know how to respect their neighbor; they don't know how to respect the peasant. Authorities, you are the voice of the people and we have put a vote of confidence, and we cannot allow this to continue like this,” noted Joel Vargas.

Among the communal representations that left for Lima are those Huancabamba, Cheqche, Chucaraylla, San Antonio de Cachi and Quishuará.

The province of Andahuaylas has 128 communities. They said that as the fighting progresses in Lima, and if necessary, they will ask for reinforcements.

The final farewell was given in the district of Talavera, which is the exit from Andahuaylas to Ayacucho. There a crowd of people awaited them with cheers, applause, and tears.

At 6:00 pm, the caravan reached the Uripa District, where another crowd stationed on both sidewalks of its streets received them with the same expressions of appreciation. Along the way, more vehicles were added. It was calculated that at 10:00 pm they would pass through Ayacucho.

In Andahuaylas the leader Delfín Pérez remained. Who comes on this first trip is Eugenio Allcca.

They free the Cusqueños.

Yesterday, the six citizens arrested on Friday and accused of generating disturbances near the Sol de Oro on La Cultura Avenue in Cusco were released. They are Wilber Quispe Condori, Javier Luna Oviedo, Américo Molle Mamani, Alfredo Romero Velásquez, Fernando Quispe Curo, and a person with the initials AGL, but who did not want to give his name.

According to their testimonies at the San Sebastián Police Station, they were beaten and threatened with sending them to Lima.

Lawyer Abel Ayasi told La República that he will file a criminal complaint against Peruvian National Police General Javier Vela and Prosecutor Eduardo Poblete because torture techniques had been used.

The data

To Abancay. Those of Huancarama, Quishuará and Pacobamba have made a schedule to paralyze the capital of Apurímac:last Thursday Huancarama came down. On Saturday and Sunday Pacobamba did it. For today, Monday, the arrival of Quishuará is scheduled.

Eighty percent of the population in the south of the country reject Dina Boluarte, according to IEP.

President Dina Boluarte has a high level of rejection in the center and south of the country, according to a survey by the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) published on Sunday, January 15 in La República, Boluarte's management is disapproved of by 87% of citizens in the central regions, while 80% do not accept it in the southern zone either.

The President registered 72% rejection in northern Peru. Likewise, the negative perception remains in the east with 71%. On the other hand, in Metropolitan Lima, the current President has a 61% disapproval rating.

Along the same lines, Dina Boluarte is more rejected in rural areas of Peru with 78% in total, while 75% in the urban sector do not agree with her presence in the Government Palace.

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