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Families destroyed in Ica: illegally detained farmworkers face prison (Spanish) Relatives of farmworkers arrested on January 25 in the town of Expansión in Ica denounce arbitrary arrests during a police raid during protests against President Dina Boluarte. The Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsman) and Ica Human Rights Commission (CODEHICA) confirmed that the Peruvian National Police (PNP) violated the human rights of the detainees with physical mistreatment, restrictions on the entry of food and the denial of access to lawyers. Police in Expansión, Ica, where troops can be seen throwing stones at houses (photo La Lupa) Ghiomara Rafaele Yoni Mendoza Llamocca left his home in Ica at approximately three in the afternoon to pick up her eight-year-old daughter who was at his mother-in-law's house, three blocks from the Panamericana Sur highway. From her home, she heard people's screams and smelled tear gas. The sound of shots alerted the citizens of Expansión that the PNP had entered th...

Ica: Police and military clear blocked sections of the Panamericana Sur Highway (Spanish) After the road was unblocked, the heavy-duty vehicles began to circulate freely after being stranded for more than eleven days. There were no clashes during the operation to clear the Highway A military contingent of the Peruvian Army arrived this morning in the Ica region to support the members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) in the work of unblocking the lanes of the Panamericana Sur Highway, in the Barrio Chino and Expansión Urbana sectors. On its Twitter account, the Ministry of Defense specified that, aboard troop trucks, the military contingent moved from Lima to the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) base in the Ica province of Pisco . At this time of day, the only stretch of the Panamericana Sur Highway that was blocked was Kilometer 263, in the area known as Barrio Chino, in the Salas Guadalupe district. According to the RPP Noticias correspondent in the region, up to a thousand police office...

Ica: Protesters Join Strike and Block Several Sections of the Panamericana Sur (Spanish) Several buses and cars that left Lima bound for Ica, Arequipa, Cusco, and Tacna are stranded. Protesters block traffic at three pickets located at the height of Barrio Chino, Expansión Urbana, and El Alamo. Demonstrators came out at the stroke of midnight on Thursday to protest against Dina Boluarte Demonstrators in Ica joined the strike that began on Wednesday in various regions of the country. Last night a group of people stationed themselves at kilometer 262 of the Panamericana Sur Highway and blocked the pass in the area known as Barrio Chino, in the District of Salas Guadalupe, Ica Province. The protesters obstructed the traffic of vehicles during the night and early morning of this Thursday, and this morning there were also blockade pickets in the sections of kilometer 290 in Expansión Urbana and kilometer 299, in the Álamo area, at the entrance to the city of Ica.   The demonstrator...

Curfew: Government dictates mandatory social immobilization in 15 provinces of the Country for 5 days (full article [Spanish]) This occurs even though some members of the Executive had ruled out applying this measure in the country During the State of Emergency, the Government has decreed mandatory social immobilization, better known as curfew, for five days in fifteen provinces of eight regions of the country in the face of violent protests and confrontations that have left more than seven dead. This is despite the fact that some members of the Executive had ruled out that possibility. The curfew implies that people will not be able to leave their homes during the validity of the measure and could be detained by the military or police if there is no justification. According to the rule, the curfew is established in the provinces of Arequipa, Virú, Ica, Pisco, Andahuaylas, Chincheros and Cusco), The Convention (Cusco), Chumbivilcas (Cusco), Spin (Cusco), Carabaya (Puno), San Roman/Juli...