MEPs are asking the international community to “not look away” in the face of the political and social crisis in Peru.

With the start of public uprisings against the government Dina Boluarteover 60 people have died and over 1,800 have been injured as a result of protests.

A group of three MEPs from the Confederate Group of the United European Left this Wednesday asked European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell to make a “peace call” in Peru and send a delegation to Peru. high level to find a “political solution” to the crisis that has engulfed the country.

Spanish MEP Manuel Pineda (Unidas Podemos) and Portuguese MPs Sandra Pereira (Portuguese Communist Party) and José Gusmão (Bloc de Esquerda) demanded at a press conference that the international community “take action on this issue and not look for another side.” “before” indignation against the Peruvian people.

“We are going to convey to the European institutions and especially (…) Borrell the report that we are going to prepare and, in addition, we are going to ask him to call for political negotiations (…) “We are also going to send a high-level delegation from him, that the EU take action on this issue with non-intervention and try to mediate against this terrorist regime,” Pineda said.

Thus, and after meetings with unions and associations, student organizations and leftist forces, the Brussels deputies demanded that European governments not sell weapons to Peru for using them against their own population.

Pineda assured that after the death of the protesters there is an “intellectual author” and a “hierarch” who believed that she was president Dina BoluarteCongress, which approves it, and the forces of order.

At the same time, Pineda warned, based on information received at the meetings, of the presence of “paramilitaries” who “informally” attack anti-government demonstrators demanding the resignation of Boluarte, the closing of Congress, the promotion of elections until 2023 and the convening of a constituent assembly.

On the other hand, Pereira emphasized that in all the rallies held “there is a constant phrase: ‘no more deaths'”, and pointed out that for this reason all the protesters repeat that Boluarte should resign because he said that they did not going to drop your claims.

They criticize ‘excessive’ police actions against protesters

According to Pineda, the reaction of the government, the Peruvian National Police (PNP) and the army to the protests makes it possible to classify the situation in the Andean country as “an authoritarian, bloody dictatorship and that because of the practice they are carrying out, it would not be unreasonable to call this the beginning of a fascist process.”

Pereira also called “excessive” “repression” by the authorities against protesters who take to the streets to “peacefully defend their rights.”

With the start of protests after ex-president Pedro Castillo’s announcement of the closure Congressto reform the judiciary and rule by decree, according to the Ombudsman, 59 people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured in the protests.

Pineda, who pointed out that Castillo’s address to the nation was “completely wrong” and “absolutely wrong,” avoided classifying the words of the former president, now in preventive detention, as an attempted coup d’état.

Among those killed, 47 protesters were killed in clashes with law enforcement and a policeman burned alive in Juliaca, the largest city in the southern department of Puno, which borders Bolivia.

Despite the numbers given by the Ombudsman, the protests also resulted in 11 roadblock-related deaths and, according to the TNG, a death by gunshot of a truck driver in the northern department Liberty who refused to pay for the blackmail.

Similarly, Boluarte announced the death of another patient who needed to get to Lima but was detained due to the blockade, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Aknur) reported the death of four Haitians, in addition to the confirmed unborn child. , UNICEF.

(As reported by EFE)