Worried faces and nervousness, on the other hand, were a constant among tourists staying in the city’s hotels
Nothing in the streets resembled an uprising such as the country has experienced on other occasions. In 200 years of independence, the country has had 130 presidents, 131 if one includes Dina Boluarte, who took over the reins of the country after the resignation of Pedro Castillo.
The general reaction of the public is calm. The Larco Museum, in the Pueblo Libre neighborhood, a regular destination for tourists visiting the city, quickly closed its doors. An employee explained the situation. A short distance away, Queirolo, the traditional Lima Creole tavern, continued with its butifarras, its ham sandwiches and the first portions and beers of the day. The television turned on informed the customers about the development of events.
Normality was the dominant tone in the street, except for the increase in traffic. Many parents left work to pick up their children from schools and bring them home, while the first calls for the protest march that was to start at 3 p.m. in Plaza San Martín, one of the three main squares in the historic center of the city . The radios of the taxis, with the volume high and the windows down, served to inform the passerby. Many gathered around televisions in bars and malls to watch the events.
The street reacted calmly to this kind of Peruvian-style coup. Some responded sarcastically to a president’s coup through a televised message, but without the backing of the military, police or his own ministers, who abandoned him once the content of his intervention was known. Events proved them right for lunch.
Worried faces and nervousness, on the other hand, were a constant among the tourists who stayed in the city’s hotels. In the lobby of the glamorous Hotel B, in Barranco, comments and advice were exchanged on procedures to try and expedite the exit from the country.
Some companies closed, such as the Petit Thouars Compucenter with Dos de Mayo, in Miraflores. The conglomerate, which houses more than a hundred computer companies, lowered the blinds at its two entrances to coincide with the announcement of Pedro Castillo’s arrest. Shortly before, the entourage of Pedro Castillo and his security team left the palace, cursed and insulted as they walked through the streets of the city center, where the citizens who attended the first calls for rallies had already begun to gather and march.
That was practically all in the residential areas, except in San Isidro, arguably the city’s most conservative and elite neighborhood, where residents blocked access to the Mexican embassy in response to the spread of news of the presidential palace being vacated by a procession of cars carrying Pedro Castillo’s wife and children, Pedro Castillo himself and the already sacked Prime Minister, Aníbal Torres. The blockade was lifted when it became known that Pedro Castillo and Aníbal Torres had turned themselves in to the police prefecture.
Source: La Verdad
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