It has been more than 200 years since the founding of our republic, a republic that was built on the backs of our peasant, indigenous, Amazonian, Andean and marginalised communities. Communities that have been resisting and fighting against a veiled racism and classism that cost us 218,000 lives in the pandemic. Today, the majority of these communities are mobilising, especially in the centre and south-north of the country, fed up with the contempt of those who have been in power all this time. And who, in these last 35 days, have been showing their most inhuman face with the start of the civil-military dictatorship headed by the illegitimate president Dina Boluarte, backed by the military-police forces, the conservative forces that make up the majority of congress and the concentration of the mainstream media that is complicit in this vile campaign of terror. 

It is for this reason, and in the face of the massacres carried out by this state terrorism that has left more than 45 dead and around 480 wounded since December 8, 2022, that from the Professional School of Anthropology of the National University Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza of Amazonas, we express our rejection of the violent systematic repression carried out by the PNP and armed forces as well as the campaign of criminalization towards those who protest, and we manifest our total support for the struggle to recover the dignity of all peoples of Peru. 

We hereby declare:

1. WE DEMAND the immediate cease of the use of firearms and all mechanisms of repression against the people, guaranteeing the right to life and the legitimate right to social protest.

2. WE DEMAND the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the board of directors of the congress, and the high command of the Peruvian National Police and the Armed Forces, who are mainly responsible for the massacres perpetrated against our people, as well as the immediate convening of general elections.

3. WE DEMAND an end to the campaign of criminalisation, stigmatisation and terrorism against social protest promoted by the government, the congress and the mainstream media. 

4. WE DEMAND that justice be guaranteed for the families of the victims and that those responsible for the massacres, both the material and intellectual perpetrators, be INVESTIGATED AND TRIED.

5. WE CONDEMN the open classism and racism against our peoples by the conservative sector of the country, which shows the colonialism that has prevailed since the founding of our republic.

6. WE DEMAND that there is a CONSULTATION of the Peruvian people to decide whether or not to have a Constituent Assembly, within the framework of a democratic debate and dialogue and with the equal participation of all the ethno-cultural diversity of our country. 

7. WE CONSIDER that the Anthropology degree, within the framework of the social sciences, has the duty to provide a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of history and the current reality, which is why it should take a more active role in the current situation, not only contributing to the debate and proposal of real solutions to the crisis, but also in the involvement of social protest from a critical thinking of reconstruction and recomposition of the social fabric of society in order to build a true democracy from an intercultural approach, respecting and including diversity. 

8. WE SUPPORT the call for students and social scientists from our and other faculties of study to speak out about the current crisis and contribute to the construction of a real and immediate solution to it. 

DINA BOLUARTE OUT!

RESIGNATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CONGRESS!

GENERAL ELECTIONS NOW!

NOT ONE MORE DEATH!

Chachapoyas, 14th January 2023