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(16 Oct 2025)
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THUMBNAIL: ID 25272097850132 - An anti-government protester dressed as Spiderman holds a flag near a Congress building during a rally against President Dina Boluarte's economic and social policies in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Lima, Peru – 15 October 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS ++
1. Various of fire inside the gates and young people trying to tear down the fences
2. Protesters marching
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francis Tirita, protester:
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"We live in a climate of insecurity; there’s uncertainty, and the authorities are colluding with criminals. The march is about that — it’s for the benefit of all of us as Peruvians. Everyone should be able to go out of their homes and live in a peaceful environment. We cannot be governed by people who have passed laws in favor of crime."
4. Close of poster reading (Spanish) "Generation Z. No to the AFPs! (private pension fund administrators). Out mafias!" and showing Straw Hat Pirates drawing from the Japanese manga series One Piece
5. Protester shows a poster with Peruvian flag colors and Straw Hat Pirates drawing, reading (Spanish) "Out the rat!"
++DAY SHOTS++
6. Young university students wearing helmets, shields, and with their faces covered escorted by police during the march
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) (name not given due to security reasons), protester:
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"In Peru, we’re protesting very concrete issues — for example, putting an end to the extortion of people we know, who are being extorted every day while they work."
8. Gen Z protesters marching with faces covered
9. Back shot of protester wearing a Straw Hat Pirates flag
STORYLINE:
At least one civilian was killed and 100 people were injured in “Gen Z" protests in Peru, prompting investigations by authorities on Thursday as protesters demanded the resignation of Peru's new president and lawmakers after a recent bout of political turmoil in the South American nation.

After a month of protests taking place mostly on weekends, demonstrations called by young Peruvians, transport workers and civil groups came to a head on Wednesday and ended violently late in the night.

The protests began calling for better pensions and wages for young people and now rail against rising crime and corruption, expanding to capture the woes of Peruvians tired of decades of disillusion with their government.

They demand the resignation of interim President José Jerí and members of Congress, as well as the repeal of a new package of security laws amid a rise in murders and extortion.

In Peru, a country perpetually locked in waves of political controversy, new protests broke out just days after Peru's congress ousted President Dina Boluarte, who has been rocked by scandals and was known as one of the least popular presidents in the world.

Shortly after, Peru swore in its seventh president in less than a decade, 38-year-old José Jerí, who promised to get a recent crime wave under control and swore in Ernesto Álvarez, an ultraconservative former judge active on social media, as prime minister.

Many Generation Z protesters carried black flags with a symbol from the Japanese anime One Piece — a pirate skull with a straw hat — similar to other flags displayed in protests against governments in Nepal, Madagascar, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Morocco.


Protesters consider that the interim president José Jerí's support for criminal reform makes him and other politicians accomplices with the rise of crime.



AP Video by Mauricio Muñoz



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