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Peru will not be able to purchase Spainat least for now, no more riot gear to use in the social mobilizations organized. The government of this country has decided to suspend the export of articles used for the police repression. The Spanish company maham he is the one who made the projectiles that the police have thrown at the protesting crowd in recent months.
Amnesty International denounces widespread attacks against the population during demonstrations against the government
The institution’s director for the Americas, Erika Guevara, pointed to the excessive and disproportionate use of force
It confirmed it Jose Manuel AlbaresMinister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, during his speech in committee, Tuesday, February 21, at the Spanish Congress, after the claim of parliamentarians from various benches.
There are days, Amnesty International, an organization whose mission is the respect of human rights in the world, asked the Spanish government to suspend the sale of the material in Peru. According to data from the Mediatorthere are more than fifty deaths due to harsh police repression.
Social protests in the country began, after the vacancy of Pedro Castillo and the subsequent assumption of To Boluarte to the Presidency of the Republic. The former president ended up leaving the government palace, after his failed coup attempt. By presidential succession, it is Boluarte, then vice-president, who must take the oath.
Dina Boluarte’s government contradicts Amnesty International: “There is no massive violation of rights or systemic racism” in Peru
Through a press release published by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the Executive indicated that “it is categorical in affirming that there is no policy of massive and systematic violation of rights”. .
Among the demands of the mobilized population, there is the resignation of Boluarte, as well as the closure of the Congress of the Republicthe call for new general elections, the release of Castillo and a new Political Constitution.
It should be noted that Amnesty International confirmed that Spain It is Peru’s main arms supplier from the European Union. Weapons license authorizations in Peru between 2017 and June 2022 were estimated at 184 million euros, including around 40 million for riot gear.
According to official figures, between 2010 and 2019, Peru ranked 36th out of the 122 client countries of the Spanish arms industry, with a defense material export value of 103.8 million euros. , a position similar to that held by Morocco and Portugal.
Amnesty International confirms use of lethal and less-lethal weapons in protests in Peru and condemns ‘excessive and disproportionate use’
The organization’s executive director, Erika Guevara, spoke to GlobeLiveMedia and revealed that the organization had collected a series of tests showing the illegitimate use of weapons by authorities. 80% of the victims are concentrated in the Andean and peasant regions of the country’s highlands
At first, the Spanish government acknowledged that it was “monitoring” the evolution of events” and that any request to export police equipment was analyzed “on a case-by-case basis” considering Peru as a “sensitive destination”. , but that the trade “was still open.”
The answer did not convince Amnesty Internationalwho in another press release specified that the government of Pedro Sanchez it was “legally obliged” to suspend arms deliveries in this repressive context.
Last Thursday, February 16, the organization for the defense of human rights presented the first conclusions of his mission to Peru. Among the evidence is confirmation that ammunition manufactured in Spain they were used by police forces to repress demonstrators, mostly indigenous and peasants.
Amnesty International’s evidence lab concluded that the crackdown on the protests used riot shotgun projectiles and rubber bullets made by the Spanish company maham.