Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands besiege the Peruvian embassy demanding asylum...
...most dramatic protests against the austerities and repression of life in Cuba in years. Last week more than 7,000 men, women and children poured through the gates and clambered over the walls of the Peruvian embassy on Havana's spacious Avenida Quinta, demanding asylum. Some accounts put the figure as high as 10,800. There they remained through a week of tension and confusion as Latin American diplomats agonized over what to do with them...
...sprawled on the cool terrazzo floor of the two-story mansion, while one mother nursed her newborn baby, aptly named Peru. "There are people in the branches of the trees, on top of the mangled iron gate and even on the roof of the embassy," wailed one beleaguered Peruvian official. "There's not enough room for one more person...
...they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into the 20-acre embassy grounds. Declared Radio Havana: "If the government of Peru wishes to receive in their country all the antisocials and bums, we will be glad to authorize them...