The country is shaken by demonstrations demanding the resignation of the new president and the announcement of early elections.
About 2,000 people disrupted Arequipa’s airport, of Peru’s second largest city, as the country is rocked by protests demanding the resignation of the new president and the calling of early elections.
“The airport runway was blocked off with stones, (burning) car tires and wood,” an AFP photojournalist at the scene said.
The track’s lighting system has been damaged and police are trying to push back the crowd by using tear gas, the same source added.
Arequipa, a city of 1 million inhabitants, is the “judicial capital” of Peru, home to the Constitutional Court.
In addition, a source close to the Las Babas mine said that as part of the protests, a highway near Cusco that is an important “corridor” for transporting ores has been blocked.
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