Some 5,000 tourists are stranded in the city of Cusco due to road blockades due to protests demanding the release of ousted President Pedro Castillo and the advancement of elections in Peru, the mayor of Machu Picchu said this Friday.
“There are 5,000 tourists stranded in the city of Cusco, they are in their hotels waiting for the flights to be reactivated,” Darwin Baca, mayor of the neighboring district of Machu Picchu, who is also in Cusco without being able to travel.
The Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco has been closed since Monday after an attempted takeover by protesters. It is the third largest air terminal in the country.
Some demonstrations were still taking place in the streets of Cusco, according to the mayor.
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Meanwhile, in Machu Picchu some 200 tourists, mainly North Americans and Europeans, walked along the railway to the town of Ollantaytambo, some 30 km away, in order to make a connection to Cusco.
The train usually travels along this route to the Inca citadel, whose service is also suspended.
What they fear is getting to Cusco and not being able to get to their country later because this could get worse,” the mayor said.
The death toll from protests in Peru rose to 18 this Friday, after a confrontation between the military and protesters.
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