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Puno: Virgen de la Candelaria Festival suspended until 2024 and Víctor Espino urged not to get involved in political issues (Spanish) By unanimous agreement, the presidents and delegates of the groups affiliated with the Regional Federation of Folklore and Culture of Puno agreed to suspend the Virgen de la Candelaria Festival. By unanimous agreement, the presidents and delegates of the groups affiliated with the Regional Federation of Folklore and Culture of Puno, agreed to suspend the activities programmed within the framework of the Virgin of Candelaria Festival 2023, in the absence of Víctor Espino, the head of said Federation, from whom many demanded his resignation. After a self-convened assembly by the presidents and delegates of the different groups, both original dances and costumes, it was determined to suspend all activities until 2024; likewise, they urged the president of the Federation and his executives not to get involved in political issues. Also, they agreed that the R...

Puno: Directive of the Virgin of Candelaria will ask to suspend the state of emergency for 7 days (Spanish) The organizing committee of the festivities of the Virgen de la Candelaria will request the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) to consider an exception within the 30-day period established for the State of Emergency in Puno. This is to celebrate the activities in honor of the patron saint of the region. As is known, the State of Emergency will be in force until February 15. Given this, the president of the Regional Federation of Folklore and Culture of Puno, Víctor Espino, announced to local media that he will ask to lift said measure on February 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, and 14. “Saturdays and Sundays are free here [in Puno], taxi drivers and merchants are working. I think that because of the issue of the Virgin they [the strikers] will understand here. In addition, we are going to send a document to the Government so that they make an exception in this supreme decree that ...