Overview
- Transport workers halted traffic on Callao’s Avenida Néstor Gambetta after José Johnny Eskeche Ningles was shot by motorcycle gunmen, denouncing daily extortion and saying the state of emergency has not improved safety.
- Police in Piura detained five men, including former anti‑corruption prosecutor José Hernández Martínez, and seized a grenade, ammunition and suspected dynamite cartridges in an operation tied to the alleged group Los Sanguinarios del Norte.
- In Lima’s San Juan de Lurigancho, officers found the car used in a merchant’s murder and detained the driver, Miguel Omar Bernabé Luyo, on drug charges, with prosecutors coordinating a preliminary detention in the homicide probe.
- Merchants near Peru’s Government Palace reported a break‑in at Joyería Meliza with losses of about one million soles, citing gaps in patrols and surveillance despite the emergency decree in Lima and Callao.
- Mexico expanded military presence and investigative cells in Sinaloa and began a similar deployment in Michoacán to tackle extortion, with Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch noting arrests in the killing of lemon producer Bernardo Bravo Manríquez.