Demands of protesters in Peru
2022.12.17 01:48
Demands of protesters in Peru
Budrigannews.com – A member of the group told Reuters that protests sparked by Peru’s escalating political crisis have stranded dozens of tourists, including children, for more than 48 hours in a remote mountain town as locals refuse to take them to Bolivia.
According to Wilmaris Villarroel, a Costa Rican-Venezuelan alpinist whose bus was stopped on its way to La Paz, Bolivia, approximately six buses and sixty people became stuck in the Andean town of Checacupe in the Cusco region of Peru in the early hours of December 13.
The Dec. 7 ouster of previous President Pedro Castillo has started destructive road fights across Peru, as well as parkway and train barricades that have abandoned many vacationers at Peru’s Machu Picchu ruins.
According to Villarroel, the group, which includes children and elderly people, was prevented from continuing their journey by the community.
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Villarroel said, “They said if we tried to pass they would burn us alive,” but Reuters was unable to verify the statement.
Villarroel went on to say that the Bolivian bus drivers have been unwilling or unable to turn around, and that there has been little police presence.
Villarroel stated that efforts to obtain assistance from Peru’s foreign embassies have been unsuccessful.
Travelers from Argentina, Chile, France, Japan, England, Peru, and the United States call for international assistance in a video shot by Villarroel and verified by Reuters.
In the video, a French woman announced, “We’ve been taken hostage in Peru.”
According to Villarroel, the group doesn’t have much money, and locals haven’t given them food or water. This has left them hungry and dehydrated, and some of them have fallen ill because they have to sleep in buses with no toilets.
Willarroel told Reuters, “We’re not to blame for what’s happening in the country.” We just want to continue our journey because it is such a beautiful nation.
