abstract:Puno is a region in southeastern Peru. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the Madre de Dios Region on the north, the Cusco and Arequipa regions on the west, the Moquegua Region on the southwest, and the Tacna Region on the south.
Thedecision followed violent protests in the regionofPuno to demand the cancellation of allminingandhydroelectriccontracts in the country, which leftfivepeopledead.
In the southern region of Puno, protestors stormed an airport and a railway station, and three people have been killed in different clashes across the country.
But it is to Puno, a poor and remote region of 1.3m on the border with Bolivia, that those Peruvians who fear an impending populist shift look most closely.