WATCH | Peru’s Lima Descends Into Chaos as Police Clash With Teachers in Violent Pay Protest | APT - video Dailymotion

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Teachers’ unions flooded the streets of Lima demanding higher pay, better pensions, and long-delayed benefits, but the peaceful march quickly turned tense as police pushed back demonstrators. Footage shows officers confronting union leaders, with SUTEP accusing authorities of “senseless repression” after reports of beatings and aggressive crowd control. Protesters called on President José Jerí and Congress to approve long-promised pension reforms and raise education funding to 6% of GDP, insisting that teachers “are not criminals” while decrying the force used against them. #peru #lima #protest #apt

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00:00Blame the government, national government's fault.

00:30All we want is attention to workers' rights, senseless repression.

00:49Several leaders have been subjected to beatings, beatings, and kicks that make no sense.

00:54We are teachers, not criminals, and we reject and repudiate this treatment by the police.

00:59There is no violence, there will be no violence, there will be no violence, there will be no violence.

01:18We are teachers, not criminals.

01:22We are teachers.

01:25From the jungle, this is the capital and competitive.

01:39The mountains and jungle are four.

01:44Us, the underpaid in the country, being the educators of human beings, and in that sense

01:51I believe that our struggle and this massive departure of teachers from all over Peru strengthens

01:55us, that you are always united, never on your knees, always standing.

01:59Up.

02:00Up.

02:01Due to the neglect, abandonment and failure of Congress, the government and the state itself

02:19to provide education and workers' rights.

02:22This has resulted in a platform that we are currently proposing to the government, which

02:26is that it must comply with the constitution by ensuring what the constitution says, 6% of

02:31the gross domestic product for the sector, something that is not available and has not been happening.

02:40If you don't fight, you eat with shame.

02:50So that the corrupt Congress listens.

02:56Congress must urgently approve a bill that guarantees decent pensions for the unemployed

02:59and retirees, who number 162,000 in the country.

03:03Likewise, the government must fulfill the commitments made in the collective agreement that, according

03:09to the constitution, are mandatory, and this has to do with an increase that was supposed

03:14to be delivered in November and now it says there is no budget.

03:17Likewise, with an exceptional bonus that has been given to the teaching profession for three

03:22years and now it says there is no budget.

03:26And teachers who have been appointed, who have passed meritocratic tests and standards,

03:30have today been denied a right that all workers receive to pay their tuition.

03:36These and other issues are the reason for the national strike.

03:58Trade teachers in Latin America are the worst paid, and the country's teachers are in the

04:02same situation.

04:05There is a state policy that was issued with great intensity and effect in 2021 that stated

04:09that by 2026 teachers should earn a UIT, even with an increase in 2026, we are far from

04:15the UIT.

04:17Always.

04:20Always.

04:25Jose Jerry signed the autograph when he was President of Congress.

04:31Today that he is President of the Republic he has to approve it and propose everything,

04:35so what he has written with his hand should not be erased with his elbow.

04:41We are hopeful that Congress and the President.

04:44Give an order to sign it now.

04:47Our decent pensions.

04:56We are the teachers of yore.

04:58Those.

05:26Our cool fervently.

05:42We are all involved.

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