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At least 19 people, including a police officer, have been injured during protests against the government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte and Congress, according to authorities and human rights advocates.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people marched over the weekend towards the seats of government in central Lima, under a heavy police presence.<\/p>\n
Groups of young people threw stones, petrol bombs and fireworks at law enforcement, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.<\/p>\n
The National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH), a human rights coalition, reported on Sunday that 18 people were injured in the clashes, including a journalist.<\/p>\n
\u201cA police officer suffered first-degree burns from a Molotov cocktail during the march organised by various groups,\u201d the National Police reported on Saturday, sharing images of the clashes on social media.<\/p>\n
The CNDDHH blamed the police for the violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call on the police to respect the right to protest. There was no justification for firing large amounts of tear gas, let alone for attacking people,\u201d said Mar Perez, a lawyer for the CNDDHH.<\/p>\n
A new march by hundreds of transport workers and the Generation Z youth collective, protesting against alleged corruption and extortion, was dispersed by dozens of police officers using tear gas on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are marching against corruption, for life, and against the crime that is killing us every day,\u201d Adriana Flores, a 28-year-old engineer, told the AFP news agency on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Social unrest has increased since the Boluarte government passed a law on September 5 requiring young people to contribute to private pension funds, despite job insecurity and an unofficial employment rate of over 70 percent.<\/p>\n
Boluarte\u2019s approval ratings have plunged in the final stretch of her term, which is set to end on July 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
The conservative-majority Congress faces a similar situation due to perceptions of corruption, according to several opinion polls.<\/p>\n
Protests have also escalated in Peru over the past six months, following a wave of extortion and murders by organised crime groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 29 Sep 202529 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share At least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,16494,3274,12,2499,46201,529,285,2579,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-460414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-gallery","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-peru","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-protests","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115287616838061292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}