Posted on 04/05/2022 9:25:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s President Pedro Castillo imposed a tight curfew on the capital and the country’s main port in response to sometimes violent protests over rising prices of fuel and food.
Shortly before midnight, the president announced that people must largely stay in their homes all Tuesday, starting at 2 a.m., because of acts of violence, which had included four deaths over the past week, the burning of toll stations and small-scale looting.
He said violence and highway blockades had caused “worry among workers, mothers and the population in general” and imposed the curfew to “reestablish peace and internal order.”
He also extended a state of emergency imposed in early February that restricts some rights to meet and move about and against unauthorized searches.
The decree exempted essential services such as food markets, pharmacies, clinics and trash collection. The measure was similar to the most restrictive lockdowns imposed against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Truckers and other transport workers have been protesting and striking over fuel and food prices, blocking some key highways. In response, the government on Sunday temporarily removed a tax that increases the prices of gasoline and diesel by 28% to 30%.
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Famine is one of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, along with War, Pestilence, and Death. ...................
Here and there, it starts...
“... sometimes violent protests...” Should $blm send a delegation down to advise them recalcitrant Peruvians on how to host “mostly peacful PROtests”?
First they restricted movement to “protect” people from a manmade virus. Now it’s so the folks won’t complain about not being able to afford food.
It’s one series of crises after another. Each one is contrived, and results in us losing more and more freedoms.
The totalitarian view of society is when the noise of the pressure cooker becomes too loud, you simply put a larger weight on the steam release vent.
Jack up interest rates and reduce the money supply - it’s not rocket science.
As with the”Arab Spring”, witness the politics of hunger. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
If Walgreen’s raises prices, it doesn’t matter, your BLM types walk in and take what they want without paying and without consequence. They’re not getting upset like we are. They are living the good life and no one is going to stop them.
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