(10 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 10 October 2024
1. Various of protesters blocking traffic, security monitoring protest
2. Sign reading (Spanish): "No to extortion! No to hitmen! No more deaths!"
3. Wide of protesters
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Valverde, shopkeeper:
"Unfortunately this is going to turn into chaos, more extortion, more poverty. We have gone on strike for that, to avoid what is coming down the road, and also, to support, with all our hearts, our brother and sister transporters who are being killed."
5. Various of soldiers in street
6. Various of closed storefronts
STORYLINE:
Public buses ground to a halt on Thursday in Peru’s capital after some transport union members and market workers blocked traffic and halted activities to protest rising extortion.
Between 2021 and 2023 extortion has increased fivefold in Peru, according to official figures.
In September, three drivers were killed in different extortion-related events and another bus was shot more than 20 times in the capital.
Most recently, on Monday night, a driver and three passengers were shot dead in a minibus in an urban area of the port of Callao.
This is the second public transport stoppage in the capital in less than a month.
It prompted the government to suspend classes for a second time for almost two million schoolchildren in Lima and to order remote working.
Two weeks ago, during the first mass bus strike in Lima, the government declared a 60-day state of emergency to combat crime in 14 of the 50 districts in the capital’s suburbs.
Peru’s Prime Minister, Gustavo Adrianzén, has admitted that after the state of emergency, extortion of small businesses and restaurants has continued.
Despite Thursday’s action, Adrianzén told RPP radio that "the situation is absolutely calm" and stated that an electric train and a rapid transit bus system, which cover 12% of Lima’s daily transport demand, were running smoothly.
Around 14,000 police officers, 3,800 soldiers and more than 100 uniformed buses were deployed to transport passengers waiting in the streets, while the Ministry of Labour extended the tolerance for lateness in workplaces to four hours and encouraged teleworking.
Wholesale markets on the periphery were closed or minimally attended. One of them had a giant sign with the phrase "No to extortion".
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