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Cusco: Leaders of Organizations from MACROSUR Agree to Restart Indefinite Strike on January 4, 2023 (Spanish) Meanwhile, leaders of Cusco have a different position for dialogue with ministers  The leaders of various social organizations of the Macro Region Sur (MACROSUR) in a meeting held yesterday in Arequipa, unanimously agreed to restart the indefinite strike from January 4, 2023. The agreements of the list of claims approved in the First Macroregional Meeting of the South are five: The closure of Congress, the resignation of Dina Boluarte from the presidency of Peru and her being denounced for the death of thirty people; the advancement of elections for 2023; the convocation of a Plurinational and Popular Constituent Assembly; and finally, the freedom of Pedro Castillo for the illegal detention. The popular leader of Arequipa, Jorge del Carpio Lazo announced that a massive march of his four to the city of Lima is also being prepared. "It is the word of the people, and that is ...

Amazonian indigenous leaders demand Boluarte's resignation and warn the Army: "Don't provoke us" At a press conference, Amazonian leaders attacked Congress and also called for new general elections. The Amazonian leaders of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP) held a press conference where they demanded the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and a Constituent Assembly for the change of the Constitution. Along these lines, they announced that they had declared their territories in a state of emergency and warned the National Police and the Peruvian Army not to intervene with the use of force, as they did in the regions where violent clashes broke out and that has left at least 27 dead. "We alert the Army, we alert the National Police of Peru, not to provoke us, because we are in our territory, we will see each other, there we will surely declare war, because they are already provoking us and creating disc...

Congress has less than four months to pass reforms (Spanish) Looking ahead to 2024. The Constitution Commission begins today the deliberation of four proposals: election of the comptroller, accusing the president in his mandate, congressional elections in the second round and impediments to run. Bicamerality, re-election and the constituent assembly remain to be debated. Diego Quispe A bad habit of the last two congresses was to approve transitional provisions to extend the deadline for modifying the electoral rules, even when the electoral process is already convened and underway. The electoral law stipulates that electoral rules cannot be changed within one year of the election. For now, no congressman has introduced any bill to lengthen the times. Congress has, for the moment, less than four months to approve the reforms that will govern the eventual electoral process of 2024. The commission charged with discussing these rules is the Constitution Commission. Its presiden...

 Opinion: What is Behind the Support for Pedro Castillo and that Lima Doesn't Want to Understand by Francesca Emanuele Neither the broken promises nor the signs of corruption and not even the attempted coup have been reasons for many of Castillo's supporters to turn their backs on him. The former president has ceased to represent expectations of change, but he still symbolizes —today more than ever— structural discrimination in Peru. In Lima, the political, economic, and intellectual elites are intrigued. They continue to seek an explanation for the large number of Peruvians who protest to demand the freedom of Pedro Castillo. And a greater bewilderment is caused by the smaller group that demands the restitution of the president's vacancy. It is understandable that the ruling classes are disoriented. They have been disconnected from the rest of the country for decades. They move comfortably through a notorious Lima apartheid, reproducing dynamics that accentuate their incli...