Alberto Pizango Granted Asylum

LivinginPeru.com reports that indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum by the Nicaraguan government. Pizango, the most prominent voice of AIDESEP, La Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo para la Selva Peruana, first fled to the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima at some point after orders for his arrest came down from Garcia's government. It is unclear whether he has left Peru yet.

A couple of other points:

1. There is disagreement over the death toll in Bagua. Peru's Ombudsman and the government maintain that 24 police officers were and 9 indigenous protesters were killed while members of AIDESEP say that over 30 protesters were killed and their bodies were burned and thrown in the river.
2. Carmen Vildoso, Peru's Minister of Woman's Affairs and Social Development, has submitted her resignation following the violence in Bagua. She joined the government last fall alongside Yehude Simon, the Prime Minister.
3. Keiko Fujimori, sensing a political opportunity I imagine, has called on the Prime Minister to resign and for the legislative decrees which paved the way for the resource extraction projects in las Amazonas to be temporarily suspended. Regarding the latter point, La Republica writes, "Sin duda, un extrano apoyo." 

Garcia's Aprista government has found itself in its most serious political crisis to date, and we're talking about some solid contenders here. Simon, the PM, seems to be the short-term target of the opposition. If they are able to force him out then Garcia will not have a single further success in office prior to the 2011 elections. He will be cooked, as Caretas put it so eloquently upon his election, en su salsa.