Police fired tear gas to try to subdue thousands of protesters who poured into the Peruvian capital Thursday, calling for the ouster of President Dina Boluarte and the return to power of her predecessor.
Police fired tear gas to try to subdue thousands of protesters who poured into the Peruvian capital Thursday, many from remote Andean regions, calling for the ouster of President Dina Boluarte and the return to power of her predecessor, whose removal last month launched deadly unrest and cast the nation into political chaos.
"We're surrounded," said Sofia López, 42, as she sat on a bench outside the country's Supreme Court."We've tried going through numerous places and we end up going around in circles." Late Thursday evening, firefighters were working to put out a large fire that broke out in a building near the protests in downtown Lima but its relationship to the demonstrations was not immediately clear.
The university was surrounded by police officers, who also deployed at key points of Lima's historic downtown district — 11,800 officers in all, according to Victor Zanabria, the head of the Lima police force. "When there are tragedies, bloodbaths outside the capital it doesn't have the same political relevance in the public agenda than if it took place in the capital," said Alonso Cárdenas, a public policy professor at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University in Lima.
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