Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in Peru’s capital Lima have taken to the streets again following clashes that injured at least 18 people, including police officers and journalists.<\/p>\n
The youth-led “Generation Z” collective led another march on Sunday toward the seat of President Dina Boluarte’s administration in downtown Lima, where police were deployed in force.<\/p>\n
Unrest has been brewing for months in Peru, fuelled by a wave of organised crime and extortion cases. Several opinion polls have shown that many view the government and conservative-majority Congress as corrupt.<\/p>\n
Protests intensified this week after the legislature passed a law requiring young adults to join a private pension fund, despite many facing a precarious working environment.<\/p>\n
As night fell on Sunday, groups of protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police, with officers firing tear gas in response.<\/p>\n
“I am outraged, I feel completely misled by this government… and this Congress that serves the political parties,” said Xiomi Aguilar, 28, adding that the parties were “a mafia entrenched in the state.”<\/p>\n
“Beginning of an awakening\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonatan Esquen, an 18-year-old student, said the protest is “the beginning of an awakening, as people are finally realising that young people are more active on social media and in the political arena.”<\/p>\n
Saturday’s clashes, which took place near the presidential and parliamentary buildings, were some of the most violent in Peru this year.<\/p>\n
At least 18 people — including police officers and journalists — were injured, according to tallies from authorities and independent organisations released on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Among the 12 police officers injured were “a female police officer with serious injuries and another officer diagnosed with multiple contusions… who remain under observation” in hospital, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in Peru’s capital Lima have taken to the streets again following clashes that injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}