Miners joined in on the agricultural strike and blockade of the Panamerican highway, taking several key points and reinforcing the numbers of the strikers. Hundreds of union members from the Doe Run metallurgical plant located in La Oroya blockaded the highway critical to the supply of food to the capital Lima, demanding the government turn over management of the mining complex.
Protesters demonstrated for a second night after the police-involved killing of Karon Hylton outside of a DC precinct, with Hylton’s family attending and being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police. Protesters began to employ fireworks as a means of deterring police, with over 10 injuries from firework strikes over the night.
Colombian riot police brutally attacked dozens of street vendors protesting in Bogota for a stimulus in order to stay home and not have to work in unsafe conditions in a pandemic. Tear gas and rubber bullets were deployed against peaceful demonstrators, with police armed in near military gear.
Protesters in Iranshahr shut down roads leading to Saravan, the site of the beginning of the Baloch uprising in which dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded by a brutal Iranian government crackdown.
Dozens of protesters marched in Alexandroupolis in opposition to police repression to universities, which has grappled the nation following a law passed by the Ministry of Education allowing police to re-enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship decades ago.
