LatinNews Daily - 30 September 2025

*Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has said that she will not step down in response to anti-government protests, which have seen young people take to the streets at the weekends in the capital, Lima, since 20 September. Sparked by reforms to the country’s pension system, which the government enacted on 5 September and which make it mandatory for anyone over the age of 18 to join a pension provider, among other changes, the so-called ‘Gen Z’ protests have also been fuelled by long-running discontent with Boluarte’s deeply unpopular government over corruption and insecurity, among other issues. The latest (29 September) survey by local pollster Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) showed Boluarte with just 3% approval. The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH), a grouping of Peruvian rights groups, tallies 32 “aggressions” which took place during the protests on 27 and 28 September, including 24 people injured, six people detained, and two attacks on the press. Peru’s national journalists’ association (ANP) has registered eight attacks on the press over the 27-28 September weekend, of which seven were by the police.

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