Peru: state of emergency called out on farmworkers
Feb 19 2008 10:27
SOE in place in 3 regions since Monday due to agricultural labourers blockading motorways. PM's threatening to send the army in. Too wrecked to do a News story till tomorrow, sorry bear with me. Link in Spanish:
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2008/02/18/declara-emergencia-en-peru-por-bloqueo-de-vias-en-paro
Feb 19 2008 20:04
#2
I've got a french source on this, might be a translation of yours, apparently there's been a person killed in the demos.
Feb 19 2008 20:19
#3
Yep...La Jornada doesn't state who it was though. The cops are accusing the blockaders of stoning buses...
Feb 20 2008 06:07
#4
Update: 2 strikers killed by police bullets.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2008/02/19/peru-policia-mata-a-dos-campesinos-en-huelga
Feb 21 2008 01:44
#5
Alan wrote:
The cops are accusing the blockaders of stoning buses...
They probably were stoning buses. I know this happened in Cuzco recently. (Although those were tourist buses, which is a bit different.) Anyway, this seems somewhat more intense than usual but probably this same thing will came out of it. (Nothing.) Last summer when a bunch of miners went on strike and blockaded the roads they killed a couple cops with rocks. But that was fairly isolated I think, this seems fairly spread out.
Feb 22 2008 05:35
#6
Looks like it has died down, at least in Huamanga.
And Alan Garcia gave a law and order speech. Apparently the demonstrators are Senderistas (and worse!)
http://www.24horaslibre.com/politica/1203634343.php
Alan García wrote:
“Tenemos información que mucha gente que todavía responde a filiaciones terroristas, no solo senderistas y que se ha visto frustrada por la interrupción de sus designios y deseos de los últimos años, ahora esta impulsando, incitando y moviendo [paralizaciones]...Eso es casi senderismo. ¿Quién nos garantiza que no están los senderistas detrás de todo esto?¿ quién nos garantiza que no hay manos extranjeras detrás de eso?...
“Doy por cierto que todavía no hemos capturado un extranjero, pero debe haber un peruano que recibe consignas extranjeras...
“Los que deben renunciar son todos los dirigentes agitadores y extremistas que quieren detener el camino del Perú. Esa gente destruye y no construye. Esa gente no ha puesto nunca un ladrillo por el Perú, pero vive de su presupuesto."
puerto madero casino workers in argentina and chilean salmon fishers on strike too.