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In Peru, massive demonstrations against the government of President Dina Boluarte and Congress continue. The repercussions of these massive demonstrations affect their commercial relations with neighboring countries: this is the case of 800 truckers with international cargo who are blocked at the border with Bolivia.
This Tuesday a national march has been called in Lima where unions have arrived from different parts of the country. The police repression has already left close to fifty dead and the Minister of the Interior has announced that the police are prepared to face new marches.
no food or water
The political crisis that Peru is experiencing is beginning to generate collateral damage with its neighboring countries such as Bolivia, which currently has hundreds of trucks stranded in the Desaguadero border area, both on the exit and entry side.
An untenable situation for these carriers who, after more than 15 days stopped, find themselves without water and food. “Approximately two weeks since we are with the problem. Already before Christmas residents of that sector had blocked. There are approximately one thousand trucks that are between the border and other highways that go mainly to Lima, because it is the main economic partner that the country has,” says Marcelo Cruz, president of the Association of International and National Heavy Transport (Asociatrin) of Bolivia. .
“Undoubtedly they are without food, without water, because there is a type of threat from these radical residents who are mobilizing in Peru, not to allow food to be sold to the carriers. There are no necessary items such as portable toilets. In this situation, they can’t go back either because they’re stuck”, details Cruz.
90 million dollars
The economic losses for Bolivian transporters and exporters are around between four and six million dollars per day, explains the technical manager of the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE), María Esther Peña: “We are talking about at least 90 million dollars, already in losses, if we talk about six million dollars per day, with those hundreds of truckers with export and import transport pitifully stranded via Desaguadero”.
“These impacts of six million dollars a day are hurting our country not only economically, but it is also an intangible loss of the image as a country to do business and from which so many clients as well as producers and exporters have cost us time and money to obtain. Peña laments.
More than 40% of Bolivian foreign trade moves through the ports of southern Peru, according to official reports from the Bolivian government.
In the diplomatic sphere, there was an exchange of protests after declarations by Bolivian President Luis Arce that were considered by Lima as “interference”. Regarding the Peruvian crisis, Arce stated: “It is not for nothing that we have conflicts here close to our country, in Peru, where we have the Peruvian people in a fight to recover their democracy and also to recover the right to elect a government that represents them”.
