Protest of President Marked by Violence

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.