New blockades have started in Peru, on May the 14th. Now on their 8th day, they are becoming more and more important, paralysing big cities like Tingo Maria, Huanuco or Ayacucho.

In Lima, where the cocaleros stay around the zone of Santa Anita Market, some demonstrators intending to block a road fighted against the police : this has lead to 52 arrests.

In Tingo Maria, the situation is pretty confused. The town is on a unlimited strike, with all shops closed. Some 20 people were arrested on thursday after a demo stopped by the police. The town starts to lack food and other necessary goods from the blockades.

There is no dialogue between the government and the CONPACCP at the moment. The cocalero movement is strongly divided, too, between Elsa Malpartida and Nancy Obregon Peralta from the CONCACCP, and Iburcio Morales and Marisela Guillen, from the newly created Junta Nacional de Productores Agropecuarios de los Valles Cocaleros del Perú, against the CONCACCP.

More info (in spanish) :
http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/Noticias/Html/200 4-05-22/TemaDia0141010.html

and http://www.larepublica.com.pe