Overview

• Bus drivers and fare collectors staged a stoppage on October 2 that reached the area around Peru’s Congress and disrupted traffic on Avenida Abancay.
• Organizers from the transport association ANITRA said the action sought government attention to rising extortion, contract killings and attacks on drivers.
• Police intervened during related actions, detaining Translima buses on Avenida Universitaria after caravans rolled without passengers and reports of tires being punctured on the Panamericana Norte.
• Construction workers and teachers from Sutep joined parts of the mobilization, with civil construction groups delivering demands to the Labor Ministry and marching toward Congress calling for greater security.
• The Education Ministry did not suspend classes and schools were set to operate normally on October 3, as ANITRA leader Martín Valeriano said the stoppage would not continue into Friday though future dates may be evaluated.