Peru ends Lima curfew aimed at quelling protests

A demonstrator holds a flare during a protest against Peru's President Pedro Castillo after he had issued a curfew mandate which was lifted following widespread defiance on the streets, as protests spiraled against rising fuel and fertilizer prices triggered by the Ukraine conflict, in Lima/REUTERSPix: Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday announced the end of a curfew in the capital Lima aimed at containing protests against rising fuel prices following crisis talks with Congress.

But news of the curfew’s end was met with cheers by hundreds of protesters outside Congress and in other parts of the capital, AFP journalists noted.Shops and schools were closed and bus services mostly suspended but many workers, at hotels or hospitals for example, ignored the shut-down, which was widely criticized on social media.

Residents of some Lima neighborhoods beat pots and pans at their windows in protest against the lockdown at noon.“The measures taken, like those taken yesterday, are not against the people but in order to save the lives of compatriots,“ said Castillo, balked by the first social protests of his eight-month-old presidency.

Like much of the rest of the world, Peru’s economy is reeling from the damages wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

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