Overview

• A 24-hour shutdown saw widespread adherence across formal operators, with caravans, road blockades, tire burnings, and buses circulating with doors closed that left stations and stops crowded with stranded passengers.
• Authorities activated security and operational measures as the PNP deployed Plan Amanecer Seguro and the ATU temporarily suspended several Metropolitano feeder routes in Lima Norte, while Line 1 ran with heavy demand and multiple universities moved classes online.
• Violence continued during the protest, including a Santa Catalina driver shot and critically injured in San Juan de Lurigancho and a gun attack on a bus in Trujillo, along with incidents such as punctured Metropolitano tires in Comas.
• Lima’s police chief said investigators preliminarily link the SJL shooting to the gang ‘Los Malditos de Huáscar,’ reporting three people intervened and two detained, and described highway blockades as criminal acts.
• Officials played down the scope and causes of the stoppage, with the transport minister calling it partial and the interior minister questioning extortion motives, as transport leaders vowed to repeat the action without concrete anti-extortion results.