In the midst of protests over the political crisis that affects Peru after the removal of Martín Vizcarra, and the resignation of interim president Manuel Merino, groups of people walked the streets singing the dance of those who are left over.
And this is how the song of the Chilean group Los Prisioneros, which was almost an anthem during the social outbreak in Chile, became one of the songs that could be heard in the marches where thousands of people walked the streets of Peru.
The crisis
The President of Peru, Manuel Merino, resigned this Sunday five days after taking power, which sparked a celebration in the Peruvian streets after several days of protests harshly repressed by the police, in which there were two deaths and a hundred wounded.
“I want to let the entire country know that I am submitting my irrevocable resignation as president of the Republic,” the fleeting president declared on television.
Merino had replaced the popular president Martín Vizcarra on Tuesday, a day after he was dismissed by Congress for a case of alleged corruption.
Congress must now appoint a new president to pacify the country. It will be the third in less than a week, in a nation hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recession, which plunged into a political crisis after Vizcarra’s removal.
