{"id":8039,"date":"2023-01-25T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2023-01-25T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:46:37","slug":"peru-protesters-tear-gassed-after-president-calls-for-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Peru Protesters Tear-Gassed After President Calls for Truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/0c17d751bceb40da9bb45ecc2bc4a463\/600.webp\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-government protesters clash with police in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Protesters are seeking the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the release from prison of ousted President Pedro Castillo, immediate elections and justice for demonstrators killed in clashes with police. (AP Photo\/Guadalupe Pardo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Peru\u2019s capital and were met with volleys of tear gas and pellets amid clashes with security forces just hours after President Dina Boluarte called for a \u201ctruce\u201d in almost two months of protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The antigovernment protest Tuesday was the largest \u2013 and most violent \u2014 since last Thursday, when large groups of people, many from remote Andean regions, descended on the capital to demand Boluarte\u2019s resignation, immediate elections and the dissolution of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cWe can\u2019t have a truce when she doesn\u2019t\u2019 tell the truth,\u201d Blanca Espa\u00f1a Mesa, 48, said of Peru\u2019s president. Even though her eyes were watering from the tear gas, Espa\u00f1a Mesa said she was \u201chappy because a lot of people came today. It\u2019s as if people have woken up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Before last week, most of the large antigovernment protests that followed the ouster of President Pedro Castillo took place in remote regions of Peru, largely in the country\u2019s south, exposing deep division between residents of the capital and the long-neglected countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The crisis that has sparked Peru\u2019s worst political violence in more than two decades began when Castillo, Peru\u2019s first leader from a rural Andean background, tried to short-circuit the third impeachment proceeding of his young administration by ordering Congress dissolved on Dec. 7. Lawmakers impeached him instead, the national police arrested him before he could find sanctuary and Boluarte, who was his vice president, was sworn in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Component-hubPeekEmbed-0-2-66 HubPeek noBorderBottom-0-2-75 compressedEmbed-0-2-76 hubPeekMain\" data-card-id=\"afs:Card:992197684850\">\n<div class=\"hubPeekContainerWide-0-2-78\" data-key=\"feed-card-hub-peak\">\n<div class=\"title-0-2-79\"><em>&#8211; Daniel Politi, AP News<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Peru\u2019s capital and were met with volleys of tear gas and pellets amid clashes with security forces just hours after President Dina Boluarte called for a \u201ctruce\u201d in almost two months of protests. The antigovernment protest Tuesday was the largest \u2013 and most violent \u2014 since last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/0c17d751bceb40da9bb45ecc2bc4a463\/600.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Peru Protesters Tear-Gassed After President Calls for Truce","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}