Lima Provincias: Face-to-face classes suspended on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5 due to stoppage of carriers

The Regional Directorate of Education of Lima Provincias, in response to the announcement of the transport strike on 4 and 5 April, decided to suspend the face-to-face classes in public and private institutions on the above-mentioned days, to safeguard the safety and comprehensive health of students and teachers.

The entity informed the directors of the Local Educational Management Units (UGEL) and all the educational communities in the Lima region of the suspension of face-to-face classes so that “the necessary coordination and strategies are considered to ensure the fulfillment of the educational service through classes to be carried out distance or virtual”.

It should be noted that this suspension of face-to-face classes is only in Lima Provincias, but not in Metropolitan Lima.

NEW FOR CARRIERS

It should be noted that this Sunday a new stoppage of carriers was announced, after the guild announced a new stoppage at the level national level in all forms of this category. In addition, they called for freight carriers, interprovincial, urban and others, to be part of this call.

The decision was made after the President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, “offended” them, stating that the strike of heavy cargo carriers was financed and organized by elements that seek to create dismantles and intensify the strike in order to destabilize the country.

“All bases are being called in all modes of transport. With the insult that the president has made, instead of calming the spirits, he has made the majority of carriers who were undecided, to make that decision. There will be no public transport, tourist transport, taxis, collective cars, motorcycle taxis and, in some regions, river transport. All of them are fighting, they are going to paralyze their activities. Where possible, there will be peaceful marches with which we will mobilize in all parts of Peru,” said the president of the Union of Multimodal Transport Guilds of Peru (UGTRANM), Geovani Diez.

“We are definitely entering a national standstill on the 4th, but in all forms,” he added in a dialogue with La República.

TRUCE IN HUANCAYO

On the other hand, President Pedro Castillo announced that the Government issued the supreme decree exonerating the Selective Consumption Tax (ISC) on 84- and 90-octane gasoline and oil, with which it seeks tranquility and stability social in the country, especially of farmers and carriers.

In addition, minutes of dialogue were signed with leaders of transport and agriculture following the frictionalized and divided table that was set up in the Wanka Coliseum in Huancayo, which was attended by six ministers of the State and the local population. With this, it was agreed to suspend the strike for five days.

“This measure, I am sure, will help the transport sector and with it will prevent the increase in prices of basic necessities that have been affecting Peruvian families,” said the head of state.

The dialogue proceedings were signed and negotiated at different tables within the region's coliseum, where various carriers and farmers reached very important partial agreements, including the unblocking of the roads in Junín.

“This truce (with farmers) that we have been told we are going to take it responsibly under commitments... the agreement is that we have to work under a timeline, we have already raised the issue as the price of fertilizer and milk,” said Oscar Zea, Minister of Agricultural Development and Irrigation.

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