Overview
- Conet Perú confirmed it will join the Nov. 4 transport stoppage, which leaders say will be peaceful without marches or blockades, while warning of a possible engine shutdown or indefinite paralysis if there is no action.
- Market unions Confenatm and the Frente de Mercados announced a nationwide strike for Nov. 6 in response to violence and what they describe as coercive billing by state water utility Sedapal.
- Market leaders allege Sedapal has been imposing fines of S/10,000 to S/30,000 for sewer contamination and adding those charges directly to monthly water bills under a 2019 decree, a claim reported by the guilds and not independently verified here.
- The Frente de Mercados projects significant disruption, estimating 1.2 million workers affected in Lima and Callao, about 240,000 in San Juan de Lurigancho, and 4.5 million citizens nationwide.
- Authorities cite existing steps including a limited state of emergency declared Oct. 22 in Lima and Callao and hotlines for extortion reports: 1818 (Mininter) and 111 (PNP).