Overview

• Authorities and a national rights group reported at least 19 people injured on Saturday, with the CNDDHH counting 18 wounded including a journalist.
• Police used tear gas and rubber bullets after demonstrators tried to push through security barriers near Peru's Congress.
• Protesters threw stones, incendiary devices and fireworks, and police said one officer sustained first-degree burns from a Molotov cocktail.
• The mobilization was called by the Gen Z collective alongside Lima transport workers, beginning at Plaza San Martín before moving toward the legislature.
• Organizers denounced extortion-related violence, corruption and a new youth pension mandate, and they announced another march for Sunday in central Lima.