The government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Jan. 14 declared a 30-day state of emergency in the capital of Lima and three other regions, as protesters, especially in the south of the country, clashed violently with police—clashes which have led to 47 lives lost to date. Protesters supporting ousted “leftist” President Pedro Castillo had been threatening a Sendero Luminoso-style “Assault on Lima” for Saturday, Jan.14, with the intention of forcing Boluarte to resign and calling for a Constitutional assembly. That operation apparently did not materialize, but protesters did succeed in setting up over 100 roadblocks across the country, mainly in the south and also around Lima.
Narco-terrorist and other agents provocateurs have played an important role in these protests, as part of London’s effort to unleash left-right warfare across Ibero-America, but there is also justifiable mass unrest in the country over the economic crisis and decades of looting by international financial interests. The hapless Boluarte government – with backing from the despised Peruvian Congress and most of the military – has utterly failed to address these real issues, and so has been easy prey for London’s operation.
The City of London and Wall Street’s approach was stated with almost painful bluntness in a Dec. 9, 2022 Miami Herald article by Andres Oppenheimer, which ran in Peru under the headline: “Presidents May Fall, but not the Economy.” Oppenheimer explained that Boluarte is the sixth President in four years in Peru, but “Julio Velarde, 70, the chairman of Peru’s Central Bank, has remained in his job without much drama. He has served, uninterrupted, since 2006, and had previously been a member of the bank’s board in the 1990s, and in the early 2000s.”
