The march Thursday, February 9 in Juliaca, in the south of Peru, in tribute to the 18 civilians who died, months ago, in the demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, left nearly fifty injured .
This rally degenerated when protesters tried to enter the Inca Manco Capac airport in Juliaca (1,300 km south of Lima), where protesters were killed a month ago.
Civilian and police injuries
The clash occurred around 3:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. Paris time), when the police "
trying to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas canisters
" caused injuries, fractures, poisoning and respiratory failure in 23 people, according to a report from the Health Network of the province of San Roman, in the region of Puno.
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Three of the injured are minors aged 17, 15 and 11, the latter with a gunshot wound to the left leg, the report said.
The Peruvian National Police said on Twitter that 25 police officers were injured in the clashes at the airport.
Smooth walking in Lima
Earlier, the families and loved ones of those who died a month ago marched through Juliaca with slogans such as "
The bloodshed will never be forgotten
" or "
How many deaths do you want to make you quit?"
".
"
Let the whole world know that on a day like today, January 9, our brothers fell in this place
," Edit, a woman who declined to give her name, told AFP. is presented as a relative of one of the victims.
In Lima, some 2,000 workers belonging to Peru's main trade union, the CGTP, marched peacefully through the historic center towards the Parliament, dressed in red T-shirts and waving their union flags.
The group arrived within a hundred meters of the Parliament but no clashes or major incidents were to be deplored.
Widespread movement
Demonstrations have also taken place in towns in the Andes, where a large majority of the protesters are from, and in the jungle region near the Amazon.
Peru has been entangled for more than two months in a political and social crisis with daily demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, a mobilization that the government has violently repressed without however managing to restore stability and social peace.
The protests, which left 48 people dead, erupted on December 7 with the ousting of former left-wing president Pedro Castillo, replaced by his vice-president Dina Boluarte.
