# Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread Date: 2022 ## The fact On 14 December 2022 the [Boluarte](/people/dina-boluarte) government declared a 30-day state of emergency as protests demanding her resignation and new elections spread, especially in the southern Andes. OHCHR later deplored excessive use of force against protesters in Ayacucho, Andahuaylas, Chincheros and Juliaca. Death totals are contested across Health Ministry, press, and OHCHR. Quote OHCHR. Do not invent a unique 49 or 60 as Contribution.size. ## Context The 7 December oath sat as parent. Education and culture ministers resigned over the deaths. She did not sit as every PNP rifleman. 7 December oath is parent. Juliaca 9 January 2023 is a child cluster inside the same wave. Keep Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread on 2022-12-14 separate from neighbouring 7 December 2022 oath, 14 December 2022 emergency, OHCHR 2023 force findings, and 10 October 2025 vacancy. The president of Peru is head of state and commands the national police. She can declare a state of emergency. She does not sit as every PNP rifleman in Juliaca, as the fiscalía, or as the 130-member Congress. Castillo is named as an unresolved person candidate. ## Evidence and sources Government of Peru carries the official instrument or communique. OHCHR records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space) and legitimacy crisis: a completed emergency whose force OHCHR later recorded as excessive. ## What is established and what is not Established: A 30-day emergency was declared on 14 December 2022; OHCHR later recorded excessive force. Not established: A unique death total as Contribution.size, or a unique later genocide finding from this decree day. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. PNP and armed forces implemented. OHCHR recorded the force finding.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread, not a later speech about Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread on 2022-12-14 is not a licence to treat every later Government of Peru communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Boluarte government declares a 30-day state of emergency as southern protests spread into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She declared the emergency as president. PNP and armed forces implemented. OHCHR recorded the force finding. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Dina Boluarte: https://factrail.ai/people/dina-boluarte ## Drivers - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space - Boluarte legitimacy crisis and protest lethal force: https://factrail.ai/drivers/boluarte-legitimacy-crisis ## Sources - https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/05/peru-un-human-rights-chief-deplores-excessive-use-force-against-protesters - https://www.gob.pe/institucion/pcm/noticias ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pe-boluarte-emergency-2022