PROTESTS IN PERU
The new leader "inherited a fragile situation in the streets of Lima, where both petty crime and more organised criminal activities had gradually filled up the lack of serious governance," said Carlos Solar, a senior research fellow in Latin American security at the British think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Jerí's plan involves slotting the military into the police in key areas, such as prisons and markets lining the streets, Solar said. "We’ll need to see how effective the emergency state turns out to be tackling crime in a sustained way, or if this will be an inconsequential freeze of ordinary life for 30 days," Solar told Newsweek.
