The Best Catholic News - straight to your inbox. Students living in halls of residence said they were violently forced out of their rooms by armed police who busted in doors and used shoves and kicks to eject them.Įsteban Godofredo, a 20-year-old political science student, was given medical treatment for injuries to his leg. Isabel Flores de Oliva was born in Lima, Peru on April 30, 1586, daughter of Gaspar Flores and Maria de. It emphasised the importance of the presence of prosecutors, who were absent for the first hours of the raid. In a statement on Twitter, the office of the UN high commissioner for human rights called on the Peruvian authorities to “ensure the legality and proportionality of the intervention and guarantees of due process”.
Many of those arrested in Saturday’s raid had travelled from southern Peru to the capital to take part in a demonstration last Thursday labelled the “takeover of Lima” which began peacefully but descended into running battles between protesters and riot police amid stone-throwing and swirls of teargas. Photograph: Juan Mandamiento/AFP/Getty Images People detained on the University of San Marcos campus in Lima. The demonstrations began in early December in support of the ousted former president Pedro Castillo but have shifted overwhelmingly to demand Boluarte’s resignation, the closure of congress and fresh elections.īoluarte, 60, was Castillo’s vice-president and replaced him after he attempted to shutter congress and rule by decree on 7 December. “This afternoon the 418 domestic and foreign visitors were transferred from the town of Machu Picchu to … Cusco,” the ministry’s Twitter account posted, along with photographs of a train and passengers. Rescue teams on Saturday had evacuated more than 400 tourists stranded at the iconic site, Peru’s ministry of tourism said.
#Lima news headlines series
The police raid on San Marcos University – the oldest in the Americas – is the latest in a series of affronts driving growing calls for the president, Dina Boluarte, to step down after six weeks of unrest that has claimed 60 lives, while leaving at least 580 injured and more than 500 arrested.Īmid the demonstrations and with roadblocks paralysing much of the country, Peruvian authorities on Saturday ordered the closure “until further notice” of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and the Inca trail that leads to the world heritage archeological site – Peru’s biggest tourist attraction which brings in more than a million visitors a year.
0 kommentar(er)
