[1] On 7 December 2022, President Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve the Congress of the Republic, but without the support of the Peruvian Armed Forces and the National Police of Peru (PNP), his self-coup had no effect.

However, as the days went by, the protests intensified, and the population joined the mobilizations demanding the closure of the congress, the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and new elections.

[2] With three thousand people participating,[3] during the afternoon, the protesters took two policemen hostage and requested an "exchange of prisoners",[4] before this, a division of special forces of the PNP stationed in Abancay mobilized towards Andahuaylas in a plane.

[5] Hours after the kidnappings, the protesters released the police officers and numerous social organizations from the department of Apurimac declared themselves in a "popular insurgency" and began a regional strike starting on Monday, 12 December.

[10] [11] With the new confrontations at the headquarters of the Andahuaylas Police Division and at the Huancabamba airport,[12] the protesters managed to vandalize the area, from burning tires to damaging stores in the latter.

Given this, the Regional Government of Apurímac announced the indefinite suspension of classes at all educational levels and alerted all institutions to work under the virtual modality throughout the department, with the exception of the health sector.

[25] They burned down the prosecutor's office and managed to kidnap another policeman to expose him to the public, who was paraded around the city as a "trophy", beaten and then abandoned.

[29] With the dismissal measures of all the prefects at the national level, the then representative of that entity, Eliseo Huamaní Curihuamaní, resigned his position two days later, on 14 December.