The Peruvian National Police asked the Government for a payment equivalent to 25.4 million euros to cover the costs of deploying troops to control the protests.
The Peruvian National Police asked the Government for a payment equivalent to 25.4 million euros to cover the costs of deploying troops to control the protests.
The request is contained in a document dated December 14, a week after the removal of President Pedro Castillo, and also calls for the declaration of a state of emergency to contain the protests, as would occur later.
The text indicates that “the executing unit does not have the budgetary resources to finance the aforementioned additional expense” and suggests that “the declaration of the state of emergency be managed with the corresponding budgetary allocation for its financing.”
The document estimates that of the total 130,785 police officers in the country, 127,722 would receive a “30-day emergency zone bonus” as compensation.
“There are always a series of expenses. For example, when personnel have to be assigned to another area, the State has to cover their expenses and benefits”, stressed the former Vice Minister of Internal Order, Ricardo Valdés, who considers, however, that it is excessive spending. , according to the newspaper La República.
The political crisis that has been shaking Peru since December, with anti-government protests, is also a reflection of the enormous gulf between the capital and the poor provinces that support Castillo, of Amerindian origin, and who was never accepted in the Presidential Palace by the elite and the oligarchy of capital, and by the main ‘media’, owned by wealthy businessmen.
Source: Observadora
