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Overview
- Transportes Unidos says around 12,000 buses from roughly 220–230 companies in Lima and Callao will stop on January 15, limited to the city’s four urban cones.
- The union cites escalating extortion, reporting gangs now demand 30 soles per bus per day and saying at least 10 companies have closed.
- Explosive attacks on units of Translic S.A. in San Martín de Porres and La 50 in San Juan de Lurigancho were carried out within weeks despite emergency measures.
- Union figures estimate 73–74 transport workers were killed from September 2024 to December 2025, with three additional murders reported in early January 2026.
- Interior Minister Vicente Tiburcio says the government will respect the protest and continue talks, while Prime Minister Ernesto Álvarez alleges some operators collude with gangs and describes the stoppage as politically motivated.