Protests: President of Peru deploys army and institutes a curfew

The President of Peru deploys the army and institutes a curfew while demonstrations of transporters and farmers against the rise in the price of fuel and inflation intensify in the country with blockades of roads, burned tolls and looted stores.

The demonstrators in Ica pushed back the police. A young man dies in the middle of a protest. Protesters denounce that police shot him.

According to unconfirmed reports, the protests against the government of Pedro Castillo have already claimed the sixth life.