The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, was scolded and shaken this Saturday, January 20, by two women, one of whom lost her husband during the anti-government protests at the end of 2022. The women managed to circumvent security measures and reached the president during a public event on a street in the southern Andean region of Ayacucho. The Government announced that both were identified and that they will be captured.
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“They killed my husband, I'm going to be calm, welcoming him,” a young woman shouted this Saturday, January 20, when she was separated by security agents, after she, along with another woman, pounced on the president of Peru. Dina Boluarte, and they pulled her hair, at a public event in the Ayacucho region.
The incident took place during an official visit by Boluarte to the Ayacucho region, in the south of the Andean country, where the widow of one of the victims in the 2022 protests yelled at him and the other woman shook her.
Boluarte had assisted in the installation of a work to improve the drinking water and sewage system, as well as the paving in a town in the province of Huamanga, in the department of Ayacucho, about 330 kilometers southeast of Lima.
The attack, which was recorded on videos, shows how one of the women approaches the president and the other pounces on her, when she was throwing candy towards the crowd.
After being separated by security agents, one of them identified herself as Ruth Bárcena, widow of Leonardo Ancco, a machinery operator who was shot in the chest, during the protests against Boluarte in December 2022.
“What is the crime I have committed, I came to ask for justice for my husband,” the woman claimed.
“They killed my husband, I'm going to be calm, welcoming him,” Bárcena reiterated, according to the AP agency.
The Government announces that the women will be captured
The National Police reported that it opened an investigation and decided to change all those in charge of preserving the president's security.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Víctor Torres, expressed in a press conference that The people involved were identified and that they are “proceeding to capture them”.
Regarding the presidential bodyguards, Torres indicated that the punishments can reach “the upper echelons” and not only those who were close to the president. Finally, he stressed that the “inadmissible” attack “cannot be allowed under any point of view.”
I condemn and reject the aggression that President Dina Boluarte suffered today in Ayacucho, during an official activity. This unfortunate event endangered the integrity of the head of state and this is very serious. With violence, we all lose as a country.
— Alberto Otárola (@AlbertoOtarolaP) January 20, 2024
The Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, also condemned the events, stating that “the integrity of the head of state was endangered,” something he described as “regrettable” and “very serious.”
“In a democracy, dialogue must always prevail and these regrettable events cannot happen,” he added.
This was the first time that the president returned to this region of southern Peru after the demonstrations that shook the country at the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023. However, her arrival was opposed by groups of family members and people who were at the protests. of the town.
Ayacucho was one of the critical areas where the demonstrations calling for Boluarte's resignation took place.after he assumed power, on December 7, 2022, replacing Pedro Castillo, who was dismissed and arrested after his frustrated attempt to dissolve Congress, govern by decrees and convene a Constituent Assembly.
The protests against the Boluarte Government resulted in more than 50 deaths.
According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Twenty of the victims died from gunshot wounds from members of the military forces. sent to control the demonstrations.
In this case, Boluarte has faced a constitutional complaint and an investigation for charges of “genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries,” something she denies.
On November 28, the Attorney General of Peru, Patricia Benavides, denounced Boluarte before Congress for the alleged crime of homicide as responsible for the repression of the protests against him.
With AP and EFE
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