2023-07-21 00:07:01
With the objective of strengthening the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to face possible demonstrations in the capital, Lima.
According to information from the local newspaper ‘La República’, the operation was carried out directly and without bidding, arguing a supposed emergency situation in the capital, in anticipation of a massive anti-government protest that was finally carried out without major incidents.
Dina Boluarte, after being invested as president by the Congress of PeruGuadalupe PardoAP
The purchase of weapons and equipment was carried out at the end of May, but the details of the process and the amount invested in the Electronic State Procurement and Contracting System have not yet been recorded, as required by current regulations.
The Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, approved in early February the transfer of more than 233 million Peruvian soles (around 58.5 million euros) to the Ministry of Defense, in the midst of constant demonstrations against her government.
The Andean capital was the scene of the third call for the ‘Toma de Lima’ demonstration, a citizen march that expressed their discontent with the Boluarte government and demanded his resignation from office. Boluarte assumed the Presidency in December 2022 after the dismissal and arrest of the then head of state, Pedro Castillo, after an attempt to assume more powers.
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