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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":168080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4659,8911,50,4174,4175,5121,288,229,3283,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-168079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-gallery","tag-latin-america","tag-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-peru","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168079","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=168079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}