Since the mobilizations, which spread throughout the country, broke out on December 7, at least 60 deaths have been reported.

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The Peruvian National Police (PNP) entered the National University of San Marcos and Lima this Saturday, where Peruvians from different regions who came to Lima to demonstrate against the Dina Boluarte regime are staying.

The elements of the police entered with violence and subdued the student and social leaders

who had organized the university campus to house the caravans of indigenous communities that arrived in the capital for the massive protests against the Peruvian government.

They have also arrested several people,

, according to the complaints published on social networks.

A person staying at the San Marcos University student residence points out that there was no prosecutor during the violent operation to evict protesters from the campus, where they were staying with permission from the university authorities.

It should be noted that the San Marcos University was taken over by students on January 17 in solidarity with the people who have been protesting against the Government and the Congress of the Republic.

In the case of the National Engineering University (UNI), the University Council agreed to welcome students from the south of the country.

The first students to arrive were from the National University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco.

Police inside the public university.

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Since Wednesday, hundreds of people from Puno, Arequipa and Cuzco, among other parts of the country

, began to arrive at this university, who came to the Peruvian capital to participate in the large marches called for the resignation of President Boluarte, the closure of Congress, the convocation of a constituent assembly and the advancement of elections.

After the agents entered, police officers in riot gear gathered at the gates of the campus to cordon off the area.

The operation was supported by a police helicopter.

Since the mobilizations, which spread throughout the country, broke out on December 7, at least 60 deaths have been reported

.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday that 76 people have been hospitalized since January 4, when protests resumed after a Christmas truce.

The protesters demand the resignation of the president, Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress, early elections for this 2023 and the release of the ousted president Pedro Castillo.

Other requests have also been added, such as the holding of a constituent assembly and justice for those killed in the protests, which already exceed 50 fatalities.

The demonstrations, which had the south of the country as their epicenter, where they still continue, reached the country's capital this week, with the so-called “Toma de Lima” or “Second March of the Four Theirs”, which recalls the mobilization carried out in July 2000, after Alberto Fujimori

assumed the presidency for the third time.

On video, police entrance to the university

(With information from TeleSur and RT in Spanish)

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