Sunday, January 29, 2023 | 11:29 a.m.
A protester died yesterday in Lima, after being injured in violent clashes with the police in protests calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, adding 48 deaths directly related to the demonstrations.
“We regret the death of Víctor Santisteban Yacsavilca in the violent demonstrations today (Saturday),” the Ombudsman’s Office reported on its Twitter account.
This is the first death from the protests that has occurred in Lima. Precisely this week, Boluarte had said in a recount to the foreign press that the groups behind the violent protests “seek a death in Lima.”
“They say that a death in Lima is worth a hundred in the province,” lamented the president on Tuesday at the Government Palace.
The new episode of violence on Saturday occurred after Congress refused to advance the elections for this year as Boluarte had requested on Friday.
Until now, the victims have been registered mainly in Puno and other regions in the south of the country, where historically neglected Quechua and Aymara communities live.
Since the removal of former leftist president Pedro Castillo, the Andean south has remained on the warpath demanding Boluarte’s resignation and elections.
