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Peru Extends Emergency Measures as Unusual Rains Cut Roads and Disrupt Services

Emergency powers are being used to accelerate preventive works where rains are testing thin municipal budgets.

Overview

  • INDECI signaled a possible imminent-danger declaration for 11 districts in the province of Trujillo to speed preventive interventions.
  • Trujillo’s mayor, Mario Reyna, formally asked President José Jerí to include the province in a rains-related emergency to unlock faster funding and logistics.
  • The Cabinet approved extensions of separate security-related states of emergency, expanding coverage for 60 days to Trujillo and Virú in La Libertad.
  • In La Libertad’s Pataz province, six districts remain isolated and more than 200 meters of a national road platform collapsed, affecting roughly 60,000 residents.
  • Arequipa saw multiple disruptions with flight cancellations and a huaico that left one driver dead with no additional missing reported, as Sutran activated a permanent alert to monitor road hazards in real time.