Peru police use tear gas to deter thousands of protesters
Police fired tear gas to try to subdue thousands of protesters who poured into the Peruvian capital Thursday, many from remote Andean regions, calling for the ouster of President Dina Boluarte and the return to power of her predecessor, whose removal last month launched deadly unrest and cast the nation into political chaos.
“We’re surrounded,” said Sofia Lopez, 42, as she sat on a bench outside the country’s Supreme Court. “We’ve tried going through numerous places and we end up going around in circles.” Late Thursday evening, firefighters were working to put out a large fire that broke out in a building near the protests in downtown Lima but its relationship to the demonstrations was not immediately clear.
The university was surrounded by police officers, who also deployed at key points of Lima’s historic downtown district – 11,800 officers in all, according to Victor Zanabria, the head of the Lima police force.
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