2010 Peruvian coca growers strike

The protesters blockaded 100 kilometers of the Federico Basadre highway, from the so-called Chinese Bridge to the town of San Alejandro in the Neshuya district. Likewise, it had a material loss of more than 15 million euros. dollars, such as the death of 2 civilians by suffocation to police gases. Of this, it is shown that they carried dangerous weapons such as Molotov grenades that reduced the life expectancy of the population.[2]

Some time after the plan, a protest was held with the support of the Padre Abad municipality on August 2 at 11:00 in the morning. This protest was a motive for revenge for this event, together with the death of 3 members. The work ended up blocking the section of the road and causing two deaths. The protest that began without control ended 6 days later, where could not be manifested concretely.[3]

The second event was better known for the total stoppage of the highway due to the entire strike. This strike, which restored 2 weeks to the previous one, had an expansion throughout the Ucayali region, including the city of Tingo María. The prime minister criticized it for being the most dangerous in the economy. Of all this, it is considered the greatest financial loss that also comes from looting and seizures. The most common examples that it has been causing on a daily basis were: 380 thousand nuevos soles in transportation (according to the Association of Bus and Cargo Transporters), 160 thousand nuevos soles in papaya and 250 thousand dollars in fuel. Likewise, witness Mario Huamán warned that the sale of edible products increased, where he mainly mentioned that a plate of rice with eggs costs eight new soles. This caused conflicts with motorcycle taxi drivers.[4]

The strike ended at midnight on August 27, where the partial unblocking began, without correctly considering the freedom of movement for the inhabitants. Some time later the protest began to weaken and the people no longer decided again because they had a new conflict. However, anti-coca operations continued in Aguaytía, destroying 48 drug laboratories in the area over 40 days.

Although the protest was inactive, in mid-September hundreds of coca growers decided by force majeure to take over a natural gas-fired power plant owned by the US company Duke Energy. This caused electrical damage, losing power in several nearby towns. The justification for these warnings was to register the farmers. Although it had a negative aspect, in an interview with RPP, a worker from the company stated that it was in a peaceful way without causing damage or economic loss.

Faced with this conflict, there were 120 coca growers arrested, including minors and women, transferred to the police station in the area. This was intended to be able to dialogue with the government. Likewise, the safe and sound workers fled the place under the support of their families. For this reason, the energy was recovered in the evening with the police intervention. Due to the little help from the people, the attempt is with greater police control to end the possible resurrection.

Later, on October 6, they captured the main leader Jaime García Fernández, virtual deputy mayor for the Municipality of Padre Abad, along with 28 accompanied. The leader had the main idea of radicalizing the strike and encouraging violence, the purpose of which was the election through political advertising to the coca growers by the political movement Ucayali, a region with a future. On December 30, 2010, 27 coca growers were released from the Pucallpa prison. In the place the order of the restrictive release of said strikers was taken.

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