Some 18 Bolivians are stranded in Peru due to protests

The Bolivian Foreign Ministry reported this Friday that some 18 Bolivians are stranded in Peru and 16 citizens have already managed to return to Bolivian territory, in the midst of the social and political crisis that the neighboring country lives after the departure of former president Pedro Castillo from power, which already leaves 18 dead.

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The Foreign Ministry reported that through the embassy in Peru and the different Bolivian consulates in that country, steps are being taken so that the consular agent in the Peruvian town of Cusco, José Luis García, can “assist” the stranded Bolivians.

Last Wednesday, 16 Bolivian citizens traveled by plane from Lima to the town of Juliaca where they went through “a series of difficulties” to get to Desaguadero, the border area with Bolivia, and thus reach the Bolivian city of El Alto.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that a contingency plan was carried out to pick up a Bolivian stranded on the Panamericana Sur highway, crossing Eucaliptos and Cañete due to the blockades, who was transferred to Lima and “awaits the opening of roads” to return to the Bolivian city of Sucre.

He also reported that this Thursday the consular agent rescued seven Bolivians stranded in Checacupe – Sicuani highway Cusco to Puno, as well as four other Bolivians in the Peruvian city of Arequipa who are “waiting for the opening of the airport” to return to Bolivia.

While in the town of Aguas Calientes there is a stranded woman, who traveled to Cusco on Thursday, and about five Bolivian carriers are in the town of Nazca waiting for transport to return to Bolivia with their trucks.

“To date, all the necessary actions are being carried out to protect the safety and well-being of compatriots,” said the Foreign Ministry.

To this situation is added the nearly two thousand trucks with cargo that are stranded on different Peruvian highways due to the conflicts and that ask for guarantees because they fear being looted and even lack food and other belongings.

The protesters demand early elections, the closure of Congress and the calling of a Constituent Assembly, as well as, in some cases, the reinstatement of former President Pedro Castillo, who on Thursday received 18 months in preventive detention after the failed coup. that he tried to give last week when he announced the closure of Congress.

This Thursday the state of emergency decreed by the government nationwide for 30 days came into effect to control the acts of vandalism and violence that have occurred in the demonstrations that have already left 18 dead, while a curfew was also ordered in 15 provinces of eight departments.

Source: Elcomercio

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