(25 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 24 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protest of delivery workers and motorbike drivers on motorcycles, honking
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Enrique Perez, motorcycle driver:
"I use to take my partner to work and use it myself to go to work. They want to take that privilege away from us, impossible. How can I take her to work? The buses are being shot at. I’m not going to make her take the risk to take a bus to only expect the worst."
3. Perez on motorcycle
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Sarazu, Peru’s Moto Association:
"These are rules copied from other countries where unfortunately they didn’t work. The issue of two people on one motorbike has been applied in Colombia and Ecuador, without any result."
5. Diego Sarazu walking among motorcycle drivers
6. Drivers standing up next to traffic
7. People on bus watching protest
8. Police at the protest
9. Various of motorcycle drivers protest
STORYLINE:
Motorcycle drivers in Peru protested Thursday a new policy aimed at reducing criminality.
The government’s measure, imposed on April 14, impedes motorcycle drivers from transporting passengers.
The government argues that two people riding on a motorcycle is the preferred method for armed robbery in the heavy traffic of Lima.
Enrique Perez, one of the protesters, said motorcycles are safer for him and his partner than using a bus.
Motorcyclists are not allowed to wear additional accessories on their helmets that impede face visibility, in addition to requiring them to wear vests with the vehicle’s license plate number.
Police, army, municipality workers and firefighters are exempt from these restrictions.
A first set of restrictions was originally imposed in March when the government declared a state of emergency, after two people were shot dead in a bus.
AP video by Cesar Barreto and Mauricio Muñoz
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