Worker killed in Peru as new president faces labor unrest

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Police in Peru opened fire Thursday on farm workers blocking a major highway to demand wage increases, killing one in the first labor dispute confronting the country's new president, a union official said.

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Police in Peru opened fire Thursday on farm workers blocking a major highway to demand wage increases, killing one in the first labor dispute confronting the country’s new president, a union official said.

“Police came storming in to shoot. It was an act of violence,” said labor leader Walter Campos. He described the victim as a 19-year-old worker who was shot in the head. He vowed a probe of the events in the town of Viru where workers were blocking the Panamerican Highway, the country’s main motorway, which runs north-south through all of Peru.

The law sets daily farm wages at $11 but does not specify a limit to the workday — just a minimum of four hours.Sagasti took over in the culmination of a crisis in which Peru had three presidents in one week.

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