Overview

• Passenger video from a Lima Metropolitano bus shows a woman hurling racist insults, including the phrase “Serranos son y serranos morirán,” along with animal slurs.
• Social media users and several outlets identified the woman as influencer and podcast host Alejandra Argumedo, who then deactivated her personal accounts as the podcast set profiles to private.
• Hinchas al Aire issued a statement rejecting the remarks and said it is evaluating Argumedo’s continuity, a response many online critics called ambiguous or insufficient.
• Peru’s Ministry of Justice official cited Penal Code penalties of two to three years for discrimination and advised filing complaints with police or the Public Ministry, with no charges publicly confirmed so far.
• The footage was recorded and posted to X by passenger Roger García, intensifying a national conversation about racism on public transport and demands for formal investigations.