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image by Ivan Sache, 6 August 2018
In Peru, the police recently intercepted phone calls between narco-trafficers
from Callao and judges, members of the National Council of Magistrates,
businessmen, public prosecutors and politicians. The publication of these
records stirred a big people's movement that culminated on 28-29 July during the
celebration of the National Day.
While hoisting of the national flag is
mandatory on houses, institutions and shops, several citizens upset by
corruption used instead a black and white national flag - sometimes with the
coat of arms all black, sometimes with the coat of arms in full colors.
In
Chancay (Lima region), a civil servant from the municipality asked a citizen to
remove the black and white flag he had hoisted over his house, considering as an
offense to a national symbol. The "culprit" answered he did not want to offend
the homeland but could no longer feel represented by the red and white flag in
the context of general corruption.
The black and white flag was seen in the
three street protests organized in Lima and other held in Pasco, Huacho and
Huancavelica; in some cases, the black and white flag was hoisted on the main
square, soon to be removed by the authorities.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/29/opinion/1532877957_247764.html
El
Pais, 30 July 2018
https://peru21.pe/peru/facebook-polemica-bandera-blanca-negra-casa-chancay-417016
Peru21, 26 July 2018
https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/parada-militar-vecinos-bandera-blanca-negra-desfile-fotos-noticia-541197
El Comercio, 29 July 2018
Other protesters proposed to half-staff the
national flag during the celebrations.
https://trome.pe/actualidad/fiestas-patrias-usuarios-proponen-izar-bandera-media-asta-casos-corrupcion-pais-90188
Trome, 18 July 2018
https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/1287818-parada-militar-intervienen-ciudadano-llevar-bandera-blanca-negra-video
La República, 29 July
Ivan Sache, 6 August 2018
I found yet another specimen featuring the exact same colors as your attached
image, plus a black ribbon below the coat of arms, to indicate mourning (a form
of protest to indicate that the Judicial Power has died), as seen here:
https://img.elcomercio.pe/ (source). This online article is dated July 20, 2018, but the protests were held the
day before, July 19, throughout the country.
It is a protest, as you
said, against Judges and Members of the Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura
(CNM) (English: National Council of Magistrates ) (official website:
https://www.cnm.gob.pe) for accepting bribes to rule according to pay
(lower sentences or even acquittals have been granted). The first audio tapes
were released to the public on July 7. Currently, they are trying to
prosecute the people involved and also revoke all the judges as well.
Sources: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNM_Audios and
https://rpp.pe/politica/
It is yet another political crisis that is parallel to the ongoing
struggle between the incumbent President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,
over a Presidential pardon, as well as other measures, which forced him out
of office before he could en his term and replaced, on March 23, 2018, by the
new President Martín Vizcarra.
Source:
https://es.wikipedia.org
Esteban Rivera, 6 August 2018
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 18 August 2018
Also note in
the El Pais.com image the flag
farther behind: an "Inca" rainbow flag charged with a black chakana,
pierced variant, so that green stripe is seen through.
Tomislav Todorovic, 6 August 2018
