National Strike: four deaths reported from clashes in Juliaca, Puno (La República [Spanish] - 1/9/2023)
National Strike: four deaths reported from clashes in Juliaca, Puno (Spanish)
Updated 4:34 p.m.
Protests intensify in the southern part of the country with clashes and road seizures in regions such as Cusco, Arequipa, Ica, and Puno. Follow here for minute by minute news from Monday, January 9, 2023.
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16:17 - 9/1/2023
Puno: death toll rises to four after clashes with National Police.
After confrontations with the Peruvian National Police (PNP), the death toll rose in the city of Juliaca, Puno to four persons. They lost their lives during social demonstrations against Congress and the President Dina Boularte. According to local media, three bodies were taken to the morgue of the Carlos Monge Medrano Hospital. This is in addition to the death of Gabriel Omar Lopez Amanqui, a man who arrived lifeless at the La Revolución post in Juliaca.
Photo: Capture La Dean Radio-Juliaca
National Strike: they confirm the first death in Juliaca during the demonstrations
Protests in the Puno region have intensified this Monday, January 9. As a result, a person lost his life in the city of Juliaca. According to local media, 35-year-old Gabriel Omar Lopez Amanqui, who suffered a serious head injury and died at around 2:00 p.m.
Until now, it was known that the victim was helped to arrive alive on a motorcycle to the Revolución post in Juliaca; however, after a few minutes it was confirmed that he had no vital signs. It was reported that the relatives of the deceased are outside the health center.
14:55
9/1/2023
Ayacucho Airport (AYC) suspends operations due to protests.
The Ministry of Transportation (MTC) reported the suspension of operations at the Alfredo Mendívil Duarte Airport (AYC). This was a "preventive measure" due to protests against the Congress and President. In this way, the Ministry seeks to safeguard both passengers and workers. The air terminal will be closed this Tuesday, January 10 and the flights will have to be rescheduled.
“The MTC informs that, as a preventive measure, the Ayacucho Airport, Crnel. Alfredo Mendívil Duarte, will temporarily suspend its operations from Tuesday, January 10. Passengers with scheduled flights are asked to take the necessary precautionary measures," the Ministry explained in a statement.
14:55
9/1/2023
Puno: Up to 20,000 Aymaras prepare to march towards Lima.
The city of Puno has been taken over by around 20,000 Aymara inhabitants from the southern part of the region, belonging to the districts of Acora, Ilave, Chucuito, Yunguyo, Zepita, Huacullani, among others.
In Puno's main square, dozens of women readied and prepared Andean products to feed the protesters during their marches towards the country's capital.
"We have called for ourselves, nobody is leading us, we are from the Acora area, nobody finances us, as Dina Boluarte believed. It is not like that, each community has organized to come, as they say 'with cracked legs' We are proud to come with our skirts and our huaracas, we are not afraid of the police or the military, we are not going to let ourselves be defeated", said a woman from Acore.
13:13 - 9/1/2023
Tacna: protesters free the border between Peru and Chile
Citizens of the border district of La Yarada in Tacna, peacefully protested and blocked the two roads of the sector known as the Santa Rosa complex, preventing passage of vehicles and people from Peru to Chile.
However, around noon the protestors, as they had agreed, released the border area and stated that they would return tomorrow, Tuesday the 10th.
12:50 - 9/1/2023
Arequipa: situation of blocked roads in La Joya.
12:49 - 9/1/2023
Arequipa: protesters block roads in La Joya
Citizens of the district of La Joya, in Arequipa, have once again taken to the streets to demand the closure of Congress and the resignation of President Dina Boluarte. This is how they have blocked part of the Panamericana Sur Highway.
According to local media, the closure of the roads in La Joya is reported from 7:00 am this Monday. In addition, there is another demonstration in the El Pedregal sector, but for the moment, this is being carried out peacefully.
12:18 - 9/1/2023
Armed Forces and the Peruvian National Police (PNP) held a press conference on protests in Puno.
11:39 - 9/1/2023
Tacna: protesters block the border between Peru and Chile
This Monday, January 9, hundreds of protesters from Tacna have blocked the border control between Peru and Chile. Likewise, another of the obstructed points was the entire border crossing ay Santa Rosa.
11:12 - 9/1/2023
Superintendent of Land Transportation of People, Cargo, and Goods (SUTRAN): there are forty-five points with interrupted vehicular traffic in six regions
According to the SUTRAN Interactive Map, updated at 08:15 am on Monday the 9th, it was reported that there are a total of forty-five points with interrupted roads. The affected regions include:
- Apurimac
- Cusco
- Puno
- Madre de Dios
- Amazonas
- Arequipa
09:56 - 9/1/2023
What roads remain blocked?
According to the latest report from SUTRAN, roads in the country that are still with interrupted traffic include the following:
- Cusco: longitudinal of the southern sierra and the Quinua - Quillabamba highway.
- Puno: via Calapuja - Macusani - Lechamayo, longitudinal of the southern mountain range, road Distribution Arequipa - Santa Lucia - Juliaca and the route Moquegua - Torata - Mazo Cruz - Drainage.
- Apurímac: longitudinal of the Southern Sierra.
- Madre de Dios: Urcos - Mazuco - Iñanpari road.
Ica: three sections of the Panamericana Sur highway that had been blocked by protesters are cleared.
According to the Peruvian National Police (PNP), the sectors cleared were:
- Barrio Chino
- Expansión Urbana
- El Álamo
"From Pisco to El Álamo, the road is already free," said a member of the Andina news agency. In this way, the vehicles have returned to circulate normally, and the residents have resumed their commercial activities.
09:42 - 9/1/2023
Total paralysis in Puno! Central police station of the city dawns with barricades
A correspondent for La República in Puno reported that due to the arrival of hundreds of indigenous Aymara, who left early this Monday, PNP agents have placed a barrier made of sand sacks at the door of the main police station. Given this fact, one of the officers declared that this measure is preventive, and that the PNP seeks to maintain peace.
Photo: Liubomir Fernandez / URPI-LR
08:32 - 9/1/2023
Puno: Bus drivers block the way to enter the city through the Alto Puno sector
Since the early hours of this January 9, different guilds have once again taken the main entrance routes to the city of Puno. Thus, the Alto Puno sector was again blocked at dawn, this time by urban transporters.
08:22 - 9/1/2023
Aymara population will arrive in Puno this Monday 9
The immense indigenous Aymara population, settled in the south of Puno, announced that this Monday, January 9, they will arrive in the capital of this region, to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and in solidarity with indigenous Quechua residents of the northern city of Juliaca.
They also indicated that they have been outraged that the government sends warplanes to fly over Juliaca and that tear gas bombs are dropped from helicopters. They said that this is psychological warfare and that they are going to prepare for such a circumstance.
5:59 - 9/1/2023
Newborn dies on blocked road in Puno
A premature baby died on the Yunguyo-Puno highway, after several protesters prevented the ambulance that was taking them to the Manuel Núñez Butrón Regional Hospital from passing. The infant had respiratory complications.
Ronald Arpasi Turpo, the doctor who was transporting the baby, reported that there was an attempted attack by these protesters, who did not hesitate to puncture the ambulance's tire, even though the newborn needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible.
04:18 - 9/1/2023
More than one hundred people were detained during protests in downtown Lima
More than one hundred people were detained while protesting near the University Park. The protesters demanded the resignation of Dina Boluarte. The PNP decided to transfer the detainees to the Cotabambas police station, in downtown Lima.
After that, relatives of the people detained approached the front of the police station to demand the release of their loved ones.
Among the detainees was a minor under the age of seventeen and a retired police officer.
02:51 - 9/1/2023
International journalist received pellet impact during the protests in Juliaca
Aldair Mejía, from Agencia EFE and a former photojournalist for La República, was a victim of the clashes in Juliaca. The international journalist fractured his right leg after being shot by the PNP.
Mejía was threatened by the authorities while doing his work in the protest area. The journalist revealed that the police officers constantly intimidated him with phrases like "Get out of here. Because if I don't blow your head off, you're going to stay dead here."
"They pushed me, and despite the fact that I told them that I was from the press, they did not understand me, and they even wanted to tear up my credentials," Mejía said.
01:16 - 9/1/2023
Congressmen from the Puno region demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte
Through a statement, parliamentary members of the Puno region spoke out regarding the events that occurred last Saturday during the violent demonstrations in southern Peru. The congressmen demanded the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.
“The latest events in the Puno region have confirmed the repressive, dictatorial, military, and abusive character (...) to the extreme of not having distinguished who participates in a protest, since they have shot, beaten, and repressed in any way women, youth, adolescents, neighbors, and the regional and international press,” they reported.
They also added: "The request for his resignation, advancement of elections, closure of Congress and Constituent Assembly, has as a background the voice of a people that reacts to so much neglect and abandonment...".
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