 Last week, Rosyulyandro Melga, president of the Front in Defense of the People of Ayacucho, was arrested in Dhuwamanga, Peru. Melga and two others from the organization's board have been accused of terrorism and instigating the protests that have been taking place in Ayacucho against the coup and the government of Dina Bolvarte. Peruvian corporate media has participated in an all-out slander and stigmatization campaign against the human rights defenders. The organization has been active not only in organizing against the coup, but the decades-long struggle demanding a new constitution and full rights for the excluded majorities in the country. Melga spoke to us about why they have been mobilizing and about the urgent necessity for a new constitution. My name is Rosyulyandro Melga. I am the president of the Front in Defense of the People of Ayacucho. This is an important organization here in our region that has more than 50 years of life. It was born in 1966 and throughout its history it has come to develop struggles to get benefits, rights that the people of Ayacucho, at that time, had to be much stronger. Today, by implanting with this government of Fujimori, from 1993, with this constitution of 1993, it has also been denied the rights. Therefore, the Front in Defense has continued to assume the denunciation of which, in those difficult years of the 1980s, it has also suffered many casualties. Now we are in the same way in a generalized economic, political, social crisis, and the Front in Defense has decided to continue the struggle with its main flag, which is the struggle for a new constitution through a constituent assembly with popular participation. We have seen the need to gather together and take measures. Today we had assumed, in that sense, the issue of taking action in mobilizations, in rejection of this coup that we already came and felt that it was going to take place. So after the seven events that happened, we have also immediately met with emergency at the national level, and that has been the replica here. It was decided in an assembly almost close to more than 400 people in a virtual assembly where we have determined that we would have to go for a stop, and that stop was determined for the 15th. So that Iocucho and other regions had already come up before the 15th day, we have added organically to that stop on the 15th, so the Front in Defense has done the same thing, and we have all added to that, and that is why we have come out. I think that because of that, Iocucho has left an image that when Iocucho is going to make a mobilization or a struggle, like a stop or whatever, I think that the perspective or the view of the state is to see that they are terrorists, we reject that attitude. Really, I would not have another name to say how miserable it is, because it is the only way they have thought so to come and have attacked in this way. We believe that we are in other times, the Front in Defense is known here in Iocucho, and we are always connecting to ask to dialogue with the authorities, whether it is regional government, whether it is municipal government, or in the different spaces or institutions. We are recognized and they call us to be able to make the dialogue interceder when there is any conflict within, whether it is in terms of struggle or whatever it is in each sector. In that sense, we, well, we regret this posture, only history will be able to put forward how the people are organized and why not say it, the combativity that is not afraid because it knows that it is in the right way to denounce this government and legitimate of Dina Voluarte to demand that closure of Congress along with the voices with our brothers at the national level, and that that teacher, knowing and coming from the basis of an organization, being a rural teacher, comes to be president because he was taking as a flag to lead the new constitution, which many citizens, although they were not in agreement, linked to the party itself, where he has been who has taken him to power, have done it because of the wishes of change that our country needs. It has been thirty years of neoliberalism since the imposition of this constitution of 1993, and what has brought us, only misery, enrichment for greater enrichment for those who have economic power and poorer to the poor. In that sense, the people themselves have come out as seeing it as a hope because someone who knows us and who has fought with us arrives.