LIMA, PER.- The protests against the government of the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, added a new death in the south of the country yesterday, a 16-year-old teenager. They reached 49 deaths due to the convulsion that began in December, after Congress dismissed President Pedro Castillo for trying to dissolve this power of the State to avoid its removal.
The last victim was identified with the initials BAJ, aged 16, and died in the southern region of Puno, according to the report of the Ombudsman’s Office.
Relatives said that he had been hospitalized for two days in critical condition for having a bullet embedded in his brain, in a transmission with the website of the Peruvian newspaper La República.
The Ombudsman reported yesterday that there were mobilizations, strikes and roadblocks in 35 provinces, most of them in the southern regions of the country.
In addition, it registered 80 blockade points on national roads and a siege of protesters to a shopping center in the city of Arequipa, in another southern region.
In Lima, hundreds marched through the center of the city demanding Boluarte’s resignation and the closure of Congress. Some called for the release of Castillo, who remains in prison.
