The government of Peru shut down the ancient city of Machu Picchu and evacuated over 400 tourists on Sunday in response to leftist rioters shutting down major highways and burning down critical government buildings nationwide.
Reports from southern Peru also indicate that buildings the rioters are not directly targeting, such as local shops and other businesses, remain indefinitely closed out of fear of being attacked and as a result of roadblocks making it impossible to maintain their inventories. Peruvian government officials
this weekend that, as of Sunday, 80,000 cargo trucks are paralyzed nationwide, creating a “critical” economic and food security problem.a statement on Sunday demanding Boluarte act to immediately unblock highways by having the military seize control of them from rioters.
The government, the AGAP asserted, “must immediately unblock the country’s highways and maintain them under the custody of the national police and armed forces.” “There is a population that is legitimately mobilized, what doubt is there? But on top of them, there are opportunists, violent people, criminals tied to the illegal economies and terrorism who are attacking critical sites with the goal of creating more panic,” former Interior Minister Rubén Vargas stated this week.last week during the “Taking of Lima,” when leftists burned down a historic building in the capital’s San Martín Plaza built in 1930.
The largest police operation to occur this weekend was the raid on San Marcos University on Saturday, resulting in nearly 200 arrests. Law enforcement authorities accused rioters tied to the “Taking of Lima” with taking refuge on the campus, developing alliances with students in an attempt to protect themselves.
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