Lima, March 7. Peru’s President Dina Boluarte offered her condolences on Tuesday to the families of the soldiers who died on Sunday in the southern Andean region of Puno and assured that her government will continue to act within the framework of the law and guaranteeing the fundamental rights of the population.
During his participation in the handover ceremony of the 2023-2025 Board of Directors of the National Confederation of Private Commercial Establishments (CONFIEP), the Head of State expressed his “eternal condolences” to the “families of those who died a few days ago in Pouno”.
Thus, Boluarte referred to the death of six soldiers who drowned in the Ilave River when they were ordered to cross the stream to flee hundreds of protesters, who demanded that they leave their town.
Following protest demonstrations against the government, 76 people have died in Peru since last December, including victims of clashes with law enforcement and people affected by roadblocks.
The president stressed that she was leading a democratic government “born from a constitutional succession”, which “will continue to act within the framework of legality” and guaranteeing the fundamental rights of the 33 million Peruvians.
Boluarte recalled that, for the three months he has been in government, he has faced a “turbulent and difficult situation”, but that the protests have responded to “political interests” in order to “overthrow the constitutional order”.
However, he reiterated that in acceding to the presidency of the Republic, after former President Pedro Castillo’s attempted coup d’etat, he shared the “great challenges that we have to face to get out of the political crisis”. and give the country a horizon of stability.
In this sense, Boluarte insisted that “the economic growth program must resume”, for which the Executive has launched an economic recovery plan through the Con Punche País program, which estimates to generate an impact of 12 points of percentage of gross domestic product.
The President clarified that the Executive has already implemented more than 60% of the measures announced by the Ministry of Economy, among which a program of investments and works specifically for Puno in order to close inequalities and poverty gaps that affect this southern region.
Boluarte expressed his “deepest conviction that Peru will emerge stronger from this situation” and called for the union and commitment of businessmen, workers and the population in general.
Early this Tuesday, the president went to the national prosecutor’s office to testify to the investigation opened against her for the deaths produced in the country in the context of anti-government demonstrations, a case in which ministers and former ministers appear. ECE
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