One year after protests in Peru were violently suppressed in the wake of president Pedro Castillo’s dismissal from office, demonstrations are taking place again. And, once again, the authorities are threatening to repeat the crackdown that led to 49 deaths, still unpunished, in January and February.
The search for truth and justice is among the main demands for the protests, which began yesterday and will continue into the weekend in Lima and across the country. But demonstrators also want to see the resignation of Castillo’s replacement Dina Boluarte and a fresh election.
The protests last December spread mainly in the Southern Andean regions, and erupted initially against the ousting of Castillo – who had briefly attempted to illegally dissolve Congress and was in turn dismissed by it, and then detained and replaced by Boluarte, his deputy.
