Protests in opposition to Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s authorities which have left 47 individuals useless since they started a month in the past are spreading by means of the south of the Andean nation.

Health officers within the vacationer metropolis of Cusco mentioned 16 civilians and 6 cops had been injured after protesters tried to take over the town’s airport, the place many overseas vacationers arrive to see websites together with the close by Incan citadel of Machu Picchu.

Protests and street blockades in opposition to Ms Boluarte and in assist of ousted president Pedro Castillo had been additionally seen in 41 provinces, primarily in Peru’s south.

The unrest started in early December following the destitution and arrest of Mr Castillo, Peru’s first president of humble, rural roots, following his extensively condemned try to dissolve Congress and head off his personal impeachment.

Some of the worst protest violence got here on Monday when 17 individuals had been killed in clashes with police within the metropolis Juliaca close to Lake Titicaca and protesters later attacked and burned a police officer to loss of life.

In complete, Peru’s Ombudsman’s Office mentioned that 39 civilians have been killed in clashes with police and one other seven died in visitors accidents associated to street blockades, in addition to the fallen police officer.

Peru’s authorities has introduced a three-day curfew from 8pm to 4am in Puno.

The National Prosecutor’s Office mentioned it has requested data from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the defence and inside ministries for an investigation it has opened in opposition to Ms Boluarte and different officers for the protest deaths.

In Juliaca, in Puno province, a crowd marched alongside the coffins of the 17 individuals killed in Monday’s protests.

“Dina killed me with bullets,” mentioned a bit of paper hooked up to the coffin of Eberth Mamani Arqui, in a reference to Peru’s present president.

“This democracy is no longer a democracy,” chanted the family members of the victims.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights started a go to to Peru on to look into the protests and the police response.

Ms Boluarte was Castillo’s former operating mate earlier than taking on the presidency. She has mentioned she helps a plan to push as much as 2024 elections for president which congress initially scheduled for 2026.

She has additionally expressed assist for judicial investigations into whether or not safety forces acted with extreme power.

But such strikes have to this point did not quell the unrest, which after a brief respite across the Christmas and New Year’s holidays have resumed with power in a few of Peru’s poorest areas.

Mr Castillo, a political novice who lived in a two-storey adobe dwelling within the Andean highlands earlier than shifting to the presidential palace, eked out a slender victory in elections in 2021 that rocked Peru’s political institution and laid naked the deep divisions between residents of the capital, Lima, and the long-neglected countryside.