(12 Feb 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 11 February 2023
1. Various of protesters marching
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maruja Inquilla, protester, from Puno region:
"Enough of so much abuse, enough of so much killing, enough of so much humiliation. Here are the Peruvians who have come to rescue this country from the hands of those looters. This is what we are: I am proud to be from Puno, proud to be Peruvian."
3. Inquilla during protest
4. Various of protest
5. Various of police blocking access to Congress and House of Government

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru - 10 February 2023
6. President Dina Boluarte arriving at news conference at House of Government
7. Boluarte
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dina Boluarte, President of Peru:
"After having come out of the 80s and 90s, from that black history of Sendero Luminoso (Peruvian terrorist group), there's no reason for the country to continue bleeding anymore. It has been difficult for us to get out of that violent and bloody history. Are we living in a fragile democracy? Yes, our democracy in Peru, I think it's the most fragile in Latin America."
9. News conference
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators took to the streets of Lima Saturday, demanding once again the resignation of President Dina Baluarte.

It's been already two months since the start of the anti-government protests in the Andean country.

Demonstrations began after December 7, when the then vice president Boluarte assumed power to replace the ousted Pedro Castillo.

The ex-president was removed by Congress after he attempted to dissolve it. He was later imprisoned on charges of rebellion.

Protests have resulted so far in 60 people dead, mostly demonstrators, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

President Dina Boluarte said in news conference Friday that Peru's democracy is currently "the most fragile in Latin America."

She also confirmed that a 22-year-old man died on Thursday in the Apurímac region (after a protest), while the Puno region's health department indicated that protests in the city of Juliaca, near the border with Bolivia, left 23 demonstrators injured, nine are hospitalized, including three for gunshot wounds and an 11-year-old boy with a leg wound.

Boluarte assures that he won't resign until her successor is chosen in early elections, but the Peruvian Congress has shelved four projects to advance elections, including one from the government.

The last two proposals set the call to the polls in October and December, but they were rejected.

AP Video by César Barreto

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