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Peru: government decrees State of Emergency in seven regions due to protests (Spanish) The Executive Power ordered a new State of Emergency for a period of sixty calendar days. In Puno, a curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. for 10 days has also been decreed. The Executive decreed a state of emergency for 60 days in Madre de Dios, Cusco, Puno, Apurímac, Arequipa, Moquegua, and Tacna (source Andena) The government of President Dina Boluarte today (Sunday) decreed a State of Emergency in the regions of Cusco, Madre de Dios, Puno, Apurímac, Arequipa, Moquegua, and Tacna due to the social and political crisis that has been experienced since last December 7th in the country. The measure was made official in an extraordinary edition of the Official Gazette El Peruano and has the signatures of the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte; of the Premier Alberto Otárola; Defense Minister Jorge Luis Chávez Cresta; and the Minister of Justice, José Tello. Scope of the measures According to th...

Peru: Government declares a state of emergency in Amazonas, La Libertad and Tacna for 30 days (Spanish) According to the supreme decree, the National Police of Peru will maintain control of internal order with the support of the Armed Forces. Roadblock on the Panamericana Norte highway near Virú (Exitosa) The Government declared a state of emergency in the regions of Amazonas, La Libertad and Tacna for thirty calendar days. According to Supreme Decree 010-2023-PCM, published on Thursday in the Extraordinary Edition of Legal Norms of the Official Gazette El Peruano, the Peruvian National Police (PNP) will maintain control of internal order with the support of the Armed Forces. During the state of emergency, the constitutional rights related to the inviolability of the home, freedom of transit through the national territory, freedom of assembly and personal freedom and security are suspended. The intervention of the National Police and the Armed Forces is carried out in accordance with t...

Peru National Strike: airport seizure, blocked roads, protests in Puno, Cusco and latest news (Spanish) Katherine Ayarza Minute by Minute Coverage of Protests in Puno, Cusco, Arequipa, and regions of Peru for January 1, 2023: 18:14 - 11/1/2023 Protests in Cusco: twenty-three confirmed injuries, one of them in critical condition due to bullet impact According to sources from La República, one of the injured during the demonstrations in Cusco is a 50-year-old man who received a bullet wound. The victim is currently undergoing surgery at the Antonio Lorena Hospital and then will go to the ICU. 17:54 - 11/1/2023 National Strike: what are the blocked roads in Cusco? These are the roads blocked in the Cusco region according to SUTRAN:  Kilometer 220, highway Quinua-Quillabamba-Cusco - La Convención, Cusco Kilometer 230, highway Quinua-Quillabamba-Cusco - La Convención, Cusco Kilometer 215, highway Quinua-Quillabamba-Cusco - La Convención, Cusco Kilometer 200, highway Quinua-Quillabamba-C...

Tacna: Protests intensify in the Heroic City (Spanish) Groups of demonstrators took the main roads, approached shopping centers and merchants banged pots and pans. Melanie Yunsu Pariapaza Díaz On the eighth day of the national strike, the first protesters arrive at Arco de Tacna to demand the closure of Congress and new elections. Photo: The Republic During the morning of Wednesday, January 11, protesters took to the main roads of Tacna demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte. Groups of protesters have been observed outside a shopping center, as well as on the main avenues of the city. In addition, some merchants made pots and pans.  The demonstrations in Tacna have intensified over recent days and, at various points in the heroic city, pickets were observed. These were observed in the Alto de la Alianza district, Leguía avenue and the Panamericana Sur highway.  On the other hand, several protesters arrived at the Plaza Vea shopping center, where the police had al...

Tacna - In December COVID Cases Number More Than 3,400 Tacna. A few days before the end of the year, more than 3,400 positive cases of Covid-19 have been registered so far this month in the Tacna region. According to reports from the Regional Health Directorate (DIRESA), there are more than 77,400 infections accumulated since the health emergency began in March 2020. At the end of last November, the number of positive cases was 74,074 and presented a total per month of 886. In addition, there were no patients in the intensive care units (ICU) of the Tacna hospitals, eleven people were in hospitalization and 220 in home isolation. Today the situation has worsened with the admission of five people to the ICU, more than twenty-five in hospitalization and more than seven hundred in isolation at home as they do not present severe symptoms of the disease. Deceased It should be noted that in the last report in October, 73,188 accumulated positive cases were reported, zero in the ICU, four hos...