Overview
- The Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima carried out an early-morning intervention on June 11 that included the documented partial demolition of two of five amphitheaters in the Alameda Chabuca Granda as part of a Historic Center recovery plan.
- Municipal photos and social posts showed the derribo parcial of the two structures and the city framed the work as aimed at eliminating informal commerce, extortion and public-order problems in the pedestrian alameda.
- Street performers who used the amphitheaters for decades lost key performance infrastructure that they relied on for daily income, and artists reported they received no prior notice about the demolition.
- Public figures including comedians Kike Suero and Carlos Álvarez publicly condemned the action, called it an attack on popular culture, and urged the mayor to reallocate affected performers or bolster security instead of destroying stages.
- On June 15 the mayor announced a formal empadronamiento of affected artists to plan reallocation to alternative venues such as city parks and other central stages, but no detailed schedule or concrete relocation sites have been publicly released.