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Peru: riot police block highway as people attempt to flee amid lockdown
Guardian ^ | 4/20/20 | Dan Collyns

Posted on 04/20/2020 4:49:12 PM PDT by Libloather

Riot police in Peru have blockaded a major highway and fired teargas into crowds of people attempting to flee the capital city and return on foot to their rural hometowns as the country’s strict coronavirus lockdown entered its sixth week.

Local television images on Monday showed hundreds of families, including young children, trekking along highways with their belongings on their backs as they made long journeys to family homes.

Poor Peruvians have been trying to leave Lima since last week, many saying they had to choose between hunger or homelessness in the city or risking exposure to Covid-19 as they attempt to return home.

“Here in Lima there are no longer any jobs, there is no longer any way to pay for food, we do not have any more savings,” Maricela de la Cruz told the Associated Press.

“We have done everything possible to stay the 30 quarantine days. Now we want to go back because we have a house, family, we have someone who can support us - here in Lima we have absolutely no one,” said De la Cruz, who was trying to return to Huancayo, in Peru’s central Andes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: lockdown; peru; police; riot
Is this where Whitmer gets her ideas?
1 posted on 04/20/2020 4:49:12 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

This gets crazier everyday


2 posted on 04/20/2020 4:50:20 PM PDT by genghis
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To: Libloather

Think we’ve all found out that Feudalism didn’t end, we’re the subjects who are the chattel property of the self appointed Overlords.

God Forbid the tax producers should walk away from the catastrophe the tax consumers created.


3 posted on 04/20/2020 4:53:57 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: genghis

You want crazy. Dig whats going on with oil futures.


4 posted on 04/20/2020 4:54:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: genghis

We are on the verge of world wide riots and panic. Here in California, all the masses in the cities need to do is miss 2 days of meals, and those of us living in the rural areas will be overrun. They will strip the land, and kill to take what ever they want.


5 posted on 04/20/2020 4:54:11 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: realcleanguy

Somewhere out there, Mister Soros is chuckling in an evil manner.


6 posted on 04/20/2020 5:19:07 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Libloather
"“Here in Lima there are no longer any jobs, there is no
longer any way to pay for food, we do not have any
more savings,” Maricela de la Cruz told the Associated Press."

Nancy Pelosi, Chuckie Schumer and their Democrat Party
are itching to let you into the USA. Just put
a mark where they show you on the ballot they give you.

7 posted on 04/20/2020 5:29:23 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Libloather

Well, that’s a new one, even for the deep state. Spray people with tear gas . . . for their health.


8 posted on 04/20/2020 5:38:45 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Libloather

“We had to starve the people to death to save them from catching a cold.”


9 posted on 04/20/2020 5:42:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isolation macht freiheit.


10 posted on 04/20/2020 5:45:45 PM PDT by Professional
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To: realcleanguy

The threads that hold society together are ripping apart right before our eyes.


11 posted on 04/20/2020 5:48:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

Probably a few people on here that wished they had used live ammunition instead of tear gas.


12 posted on 04/20/2020 6:00:56 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Libloather

The Peruvian killing fields are all urban.


13 posted on 04/20/2020 6:02:50 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: realcleanguy

I’d say we are about two weeks away from SHTF in certain areas. It doesn’t take much. Just remember,the left is CELEBRATING the revolution.


14 posted on 04/20/2020 6:20:12 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

Yep, the Left is celebrating it.Here in SLO county, we are in a position to be attacked by the Bay Area or Los Angeles. Both areas are already showing signs of strain. I think it will break within two weeks. And the Left will all blame Trump. The Left has been carefully crafting this to destroy the US in order to win an election


15 posted on 04/20/2020 10:11:57 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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