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Venezuelans in Peru collect to protest in opposition to Nicolás Maduro

One day after the inauguration, the demonstrations in opposition to Nicolás Maduro have paralyzed Peru, the second nation in Latin America with probably the most Venezuelan refugees. The protesters gathered in block 2 of Arequipa Avenue, in Lima, within the neighborhood of the Venezuelan Embassy.

“Do eight million Venezuelans go out for tourism?”, “We won and everyone knows it,” learn among the most hanging posters of a day that has unfold in the primary squares of coastal cities corresponding to Trujillo, Paita, Chiclayo and Arequipa, in addition to the Cusco mountain vary, the place the cry for freedom was felt from the early hours of the morning.

“We must understand that the only way to avoid an even greater exodus of Venezuelans is by preventing Nicolás Maduro from carrying out this coup d’état in Venezuela. What we have witnessed so far in terms of migration would be insignificant compared to the avalanche of people who would flee the barbarism that our country is going through,” declared Oscar Pérez, president of the Venezuelan Union NGO in Peru. It is estimated that the Andean nation is residence to round 1.7 million Venezuelans.

At the start of the week, Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer reported that 4 Peruvian residents had been detained in Venezuela by the Maduro regime.

One of them, Nelson Cubas Mendoza, communicated with the press and mentioned that he was stripped of all his belongings and that he was imprisoned in Caracas for a month. On the opposite hand, it has emerged that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela has invited Perú Libre – the political group that introduced Pedro Castillo and Dina Dina Boluarte to energy – to Caracas to take part within the swearing-in of Maduro’s third time period, amid of fraud allegations. It is presumed that they may ship some emissaries as a result of their prime representatives have main impediments: Pedro Castillo is serving two preventive detention orders and his common secretary, Vladimir Cerrón, has been in hiding since 2023.