Vanessa Bushley
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first heard Oct 2025
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Global News Podcast · US Vice-President: We must disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza · 22 Oct 2025
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And... People were not stepping out of their homes because of the heavy rains and destruction.
Crime was not a huge problem for years and it has risen massively.
In the last year, there was a 34 jump in the number of murders.
Now, the number of murders is still much lower than that of neighboring Ecuador.
But of course, the sensation that many Peruvians feel is that this jump has made their lives unbearable, especially the lives of people who get extorted by gangs.
Those are, for example, taxi drivers and bus drivers.
They're huge gangs that just specialize in extorting money from these public transport workers.
Well, I think that's what all of Peru is waiting to see, because it is not the first time that a 30-day state of emergency has been declared.
A similar measure was taken in March under the previous president, Dilabo Luarte, and it didn't make much of a difference.
What the new president, José Geri, is trying to achieve with this is he is going to send soldiers out onto the streets to help the police.
It's a show of strength, really.
And he's also trying to target the prison gangs.
He says that much of this extortion...
And crime is planned from behind bars by people who are already in jail.
So he has also declared that communications from inside prisons should be barred.
So there will be no mobile phones.
And in fact, he's going to turn off the power inside the jails so that they only have lighting but can't charge any mobile phones and therefore not pass on any messages to the outside.
This is actually his most visible measure so far.
In fact, a journalist friend from Peru compared these measures and this image that he's trying to portray to that of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.
the very popular but also very controversial president of that nation, who has managed to drive down crime over there, but who is also accused of breaching human rights in El Salvador.
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