Overview
- Peru’s transport federation said Interior Minister Carlos Malaver told them the state lacks the S/43 million needed to declare an emergency for Lima and Callao, as the sector reports 65 driver killings this year and warns of service collapse.
- Police in San Juan de Lurigancho arrested an alleged leader of “Los Zánganos de SJL” on a public bus, seizing a loaded firearm and phones with extortion messages that investigators say indicate a planned attack on a driver.
- In Trujillo’s El Porvenir district, a colectivo driver was shot dead and a video circulated threatening transport operators on the Gran Chimú route, which police link to gang disputes over control of transport corridors.
- The governors of Chubut, Mendoza and Santa Cruz appeared at Comodoro Py to join as complainants in the probe of the Eskenazi group’s 2007 entry into YPF, while Chubut also filed an amicus brief in New York to defend provincial shareholder interests.
- Peronist leader Juan Grabois filed a criminal complaint alleging José Luis Espert received $200,000 from accused trafficker Federico “Fred” Machado, a case assigned to Judge Lino Mirabelli as opposition lawmakers seek Espert’s removal from the Budget Committee.