Peru | The Government extends the state of emergency in Lima, Cuzco, Puno and other provinces

The Government of Peru published this Saturday the decree that extends the state of emergency from January 15 and for 30 days in the regions of Lima, Cuzco, Puno, Callao, in three other provinces and a district to control the social protests that have claimed the lives of 49 people since December.

Through a supreme decree published tonight in the official newspaper El Peruano, the Executive branch extended the state of emergency in the areas where the largest anti-government protests have been reported in the last week, which on December 15 came into force throughout the country. National territory.

The norm establishes that, as of this Sunday, the state of emergency will govern in the regions of Lima, Cuzco and Puno and in the constitutional province of Callao.

Also in the province of Andahuaylas in the department of Apurímac, in the provinces of Tambopata and Tahuamanu in the department of Madre de Dios and in the district of Torata in the department of Moquegua.

Also, the measure includes five national highwaysincluding the Panamericana Sur, Panamericana Norte, Central, the South Apurimac-Cuzco-Arequipa Road Corridor and the South Interoceanic Road Corridor.

“During the States of Emergency … the constitutional rights related to the inviolability of the home, freedom of transit through the national territory, freedom of assembly and personal freedom and security are suspended,” the decree reads.

The norm also specifies that the National Police of Peru maintains internal order, with the support of the Armed Forces.

It details that the intervention of the forces of order is carried out in accordance with the current regulations that regulate the use of force by the Police and the decrees that establish the rules of employment and use of force by the military.

The document also states that the President of the Republic can decree a state of emergency in case of “disturbance of peace or internal order, catastrophe or serious circumstances that affect the life of the nation.”

On the other hand, the fourth article of the decree It also extends from Sunday and for ten days the mandatory social immobilization, between 8:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., which the Government decreed this week in the southern region of Punoone of the epicenters of the protests.

In the city of Juliaca, Puno, the social mobilizations calling for the resignation of the president, Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress and elections for 2023 experienced their deadliest day, which left a balance of 17 protesters dead.

Since the protests began last December, after the failed self-coup by former president Pedro Castillo, 49 people have lost their lives, 21 of them in the last week.

The norm bears the signatures of President Boluarte, the Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, and the holders of the Defense, Interior and Justice portfolios.

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