Protest of President Marked by Violence
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In Peru’s most violent protest in years, at least 300 workers, demonstrating against President Alberto Fujimori’s possible reelection bid and demanding more jobs, smashed windows and raided a storage facility on the presidential palace grounds in Lima. The 30-minute incident was the worst bout of violence in about three hours of protests in the city center as about 5,000 workers, obeying a nationwide strike call by Peru’s largest unions, marched to protest a congressional vote that quashed calls for a referendum over whether Fujimori could run for reelection.
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