Peru faces food, fuel shortages as protesters dig in

LIMA, Jan 26 — Shortages in Peru of basic products, including increasingly expensive fuel and food, continued to mount Wednesday as over a month of anti-government demonstrations showed no end in sight.

Although poorer southern regions have fueled the anti-government movement, thousands of villagers have also traveled to the capital Lima, where violent clashes Tuesday resulted in injuries and arrests. “I’ve already been told there’s no more LPG in Arequipa,” Alexander Cornejo, a national taxi driver representative, told the RPP radio station.In the city of Puno, where some of the worst violence has occurred since December 7, prices of basic food items such as potatoes and tomatoes have tripled.

Governor Luis Otsuka said that if the roadblocks continued he would have to try to source food and fuel from Brazil and Bolivia. Multiple people were arrested and several were injured, including two photographers, one with AFP, who were hit by pellets and stones.

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