A thousand military personnel were deployed at critical points in the Peruvian capital, on the first day of the state of emergency decreed by the government, while criticism of the measure intensified. teleSUR
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00:00In Peru, various authority figures have spoken out to criticize the government's actions
00:05regarding the implementation of a state of emergency in order to combat organized crime.
00:11Members of the Peruvian Armed Forces were deployed on Tuesday in Lima after the government
00:16declared a state of emergency in the capital for a month. In this context, the major of the
00:22district of San Juan de Lurigancho, Jesús Maldonado, declared the state of emergency
00:27does not have a strategy or an integral plan to fight delinquency and criminality. Likewise,
00:34Congressman Sigrid Bassan described the measure as a mockery to the citizenship
00:40and added that President Dina Boluarte has no idea how to face crime.