Today a dispatch from one of the ongoing protests in Peru that have arisen after the attempted self-coup and subsequent removal from power of president Pedro Castillo in December. At least sixty people have been killed and hundreds of others have been injured largely by police violence. Help pay for
According to the latest survey by the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), published in the newspaper La República, disapproval of Dina Boluarte rose five points in the last two weeks. On January 15, it registered that it had 71%, but now it has 76%. The south is the area of the country where the greatest rejection of the president is concentrated with 88%. *
President Dina Boluarte : "My resignation is not a large majority that asks for it, it belongs to a group of these people who are generating the protests in the street, especially from the left-wing benches that until now do not understand what their purpose is," she said. **
* https://www.infobae.com/peru/2023/01/29/el-76-de-peruanos-rechaza-al-gobierno-de-dina-boluarte-que-tiene-menos-de-dos-meses-en-el-poder/
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