{"id":1778752,"date":"2022-12-17T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778752"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:17:57","slug":"5000-tourists-stranded-near-machu-picchu-as-peru-rocked-by-protests-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5000-tourists-stranded-near-machu-picchu-as-peru-rocked-by-protests-mayor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 Tourists Stranded Near Machu Picchu As Peru Rocked By Protests, Mayor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5000-tourists-stranded-near-machu-picchu-as-peru-rocked-by-protests-mayor-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Thousands of tourists have been stranded in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/south-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peru<\/a> due to ongoing political protests in the South American nation, according to a local mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tourists have been stranded in Cusco, a key stop on the way to the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, a popular tourist destination, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1603795635223904256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Darwin Baca, the mayor of Machu Picchu. The visitors\u2019 predicament comes as Peru faces violent protests over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leftist-peruvian-president-impeached-after-vowing-to-dissolve-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removal<\/a> of leftist former President Pedro Castillo after he attempted to dissolve Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 5,000 tourists stranded in the city of Cusco, they are in their hotels waiting for flights to restart,\u201d Baca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20221216-protests-strand-5-000-tourists-in-machu-picchu-gateway-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those stranded in Cusco, some tourists have been stranded in Machu Picchu, which is located high in the Andes mountains. \u201cWe have asked the government to help us and establish helicopter flights in order to evacuate the tourists,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/machu-picchu-tourists-stranded-amid-protests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Baca.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PeruRail this week paused its trip up to the ancient city due to the violence, though it said it would attempt to help those stranded get to safety. \u201cWe regret the inconvenience that these announcements generate for our passengers; however, they are due to situations beyond the control of our company and seek to prioritize the safety of passengers and workers,\u201d the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other tourists in the country, including children and elderly people, have been stranded as well, with some reportedly receiving violent threats from protesters. Sixty tourists attempting to go to Bolivia have been stuck in the mountainous town of Checacupe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Costa Rican-Venezuelan alpinist Wilmaris Villarroel <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/MA2cF#selection-685.0-685.57\">told<\/a> Reuters that his group had been threatened by protestors. \u201cThey said if we tried to pass they would burn us alive,\u201d he claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not to blame for what\u2019s happening in the country,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is a beautiful nation and we just want to continue our journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villarroel\u2019s group includes people from Argentina, Chile, France, Japan, England, and the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Machu Picchu was<a href=\"https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org\/hiram-bingham-iii-machu-picchu-explorer-and-politician\/\"> introduced<\/a> to the world by explorer and future Connecticut Republican Senator Hiram Bingham III, who discovered the ancient ruins alongside some local farmers during his Yale Peruvian Expedition from 1911 to 1915.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ancient city was a mountain hideaway for the Inca Empire, which dominated the region from around 1400 until the Spanish under Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1532. The site gets over 1.5 million visitors a year, some of whom hike up the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is recommending that Americans reconsider travel to Peru, <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/peru-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placing<\/a> it at a level three travel advisory. At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in violent protests over the political unrest following Castillo\u2019s imprisonment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Peru due to ongoing political protests in the South American nation, according to a local mayor.\u00a0 The tourists have been stranded in Cusco, a key stop on the way to the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu, a popular tourist destination, according to Darwin Baca, the mayor of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1778755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9930,6202,9929,4602,9931,9932,3970,4624,9928,9927,6195],"class_list":["post-1778752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-9930","tag-daily","tag-machu","tag-mayor","tag-peru","tag-picchu","tag-protests","tag-rocked","tag-stranded","tag-tourists","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}