The young woman from Arequipa who traveled to take over Lima was arrested in San Marcos and is missing

Those who saw her last say that she is very thin and dehydrated

Ingrid Aguirre Ticona (30) left Arequipa for the capital on January 19 to participate in the ‘Take of Lima’, as the great march demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and the advancement of general elections was called.

Protesters who were detained in San Marcos were released on a day marked by protests in Puno and Arequipa

The Prosecutor’s Office ordered the release of the protesters who were intervened last Saturday at the UNMSM and in La Joya (Arequipa), the protesters tried to take over the police station.

He spent the night at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), until last Saturday a contingent entered by force to evict the protesters from different regions who had taken refuge in this student compound.

The young woman was one of those arrested after the eviction by the Police, who demolished the entrance to the university with a tank and entered the campus to evict hundreds of protesters, who were later taken to different police facilities.

Relatives ask for help

Since Sunday the 22nd, when she was released from the Directorate Against Terrorism (Dircote), her whereabouts are unknown. A day ago she was located by the Manchay police station, but she escaped from her without her belongings or her identity documents, according to a report by La República.

Those who saw her last say that she is very thin and dehydrated, and that she is possibly having nervous disorders and post-traumatic stress due to the arbitrary detention, which has been condemned by various human rights organizations.

Detained in San Marcos denounces mistreatment by the Police

Ingrid Aguirre wears a black T-shirt, light blue jean pants, white platform sneakers, and a black backpack. She wears shoulder length hair, and glasses. Her relatives ask to report any information to the numbers: 997 120 094 or 941 052 094.

Roads closed and riots in Lima and Ica were recorded on the twentieth day of the resumption of protests

Desolate panorama in Cusco due to the cancellation of 90% of tourist reservations due to the closure of Machu Picchu. In Puno, more than 300 drivers stranded for two weeks due to roadblocks are requesting intervention from the authorities to reach their destination. More demonstrations and the arrival of delegations from other regions are announced in Lima.

His sister indicates that, days before the disappearance, he called to let them know that he would return home on Monday the 23rd of this month. The Ombudsman’s Office and the National Human Rights Commission (CNDDHH) are following his case, but currently they have not found his whereabouts.

The young woman’s belongings and her identity documents remained at the Manchay police station and her cell phone is turned off. “My sister is very scared. She is always wanting to escape, she is very afraid, perhaps it is post-traumatic stress, ”the sister of the disappeared woman told her diary.

For the Ombudsman’s Office, the eviction affected fundamental rights. Among those arrested were students, women, two pregnant women, a girl, the elderly, people with disabilities and with medical prescription, as well as members of peasant and indigenous communities, whose mother tongues are Quechua and Aymara, “who would not have received any information about the reasons for his detention.

Protesters detained in San Marcos were released (Photo by Juan MANDAMIENTO / AFP)

The general secretary of the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP), Gerónimo López, condemned, for his part, the “criminalization” of the protest and the so-called “terruqueo”, alluding to the fact of accusing the protesters of “terrorists” a country that still feels the wounds of the terror that the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) sowed between 1980 and 2000.

Meanwhile, the UNMSM Graduates Front demanded the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero, and stressed that the protesters are not “willing to give in to recover the homeland.”

They present a new constitutional complaint against Dina Boluarte, Alberto Otárola and the Minister of the Interior

Congresswoman Ruth Luque extended this appeal to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations. It is not the first time that she constitutionally accuses any of those mentioned.

“We are not only talking about democracy, we are talking about the rights of our brothers (…) of the misunderstanding of a capital, of a centralized government that has put us off for decades,” said one of their representatives.

Amid the criticism, the Prosecutor’s Office ordered this week to open a preliminary investigation against Romero for the alleged omission of his duty in charge of that portfolio in the eviction, for which the head of state apologized.

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