Angry mobs stormed various government buildings in Lima, Peru, on Tuesday night, attempting to burn down the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and fighting police with bricks and sticks.
President Pedro Castillo abruptly announced a “curfew” stripping citizens of their constitutional rights, then repealed the curfew when thousands disobeyed it. The curfew, Castillo claimed, was an attempt to subdue nationwide protests against skyrocketing gasoline and food prices, an increasingly common phenomenon in the world’s most.
Castillo announced the curfew in a nationally televised address on Monday, minutes before midnight on Tuesday. Hethe curfew at 5 p.m. Lima time on Tuesday after Public Defender of Peru Walter Gutiérrez filed a habeas corpus petition regarding the move, arguing it was unconstitutional. The mayor of Lima, Jorge Muñoz, similarly challenged the curfew through a habeas corpus petition.
“Peru today is capsizing socially, politically, and economically, and there seems to be no way out,” Muñoz said. “A solution should immediately be sought to end this situation. You [Castillo] said you would hold early elections if you did not meet expectatations – what are you waiting for?” Ending the curfew did not stop mobs of “vandals,” as local outlets decribed them, attacking the headquarters of the Public Ministry, the National Jury of Elections, and the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, the top regional judiciary. The latter suffered some of the most significant damage. Radio Programas del Perúprotesters ripping cobblestones out of the street and throwing them at the facade of the Superior Court building and “using its door as a urinal.
🔵Corte Superior de Lima: Los vándalos no solo rompieron las puertas de vidrio. Se robaron todo lo que encontraron a su paso. Escritorio, computadoras, sillas y hasta expedientes.
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