Peru Protests intensify
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Students, workers and teachers participated, carrying banners, whistles and saucepans.
In Lima, hundreds of helmeted riot police looked on at the protests, which correspondents say could be the biggest since President Alejandro Toledo took power two years ago.
A wave of strikes - some now in their fourth week - has thrust the unpopular president into perhaps his most serious crisis so far.
Workers are demanding wage increases President Toledo promised them during his election campaign, but which he has now agreed with the International Monetary Fund to shelve.
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Tanker ships carrying food and fuel had to be sent to Peru's southern regions on Friday because of protest that are not letting up in the region.
Thousands of miners and residents in the region of Moquegua blocked roads this week when it was announced that Southern Peru Copper cut some of the royalties the region normally received.
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Southern Peru Copper mining royalties bring out 5,000 protestors
Demanding that money brought in from mining be shared with the region's poor, protestors in Moquegua - a small region in southern Peru - have blocked roads to Chile as well as a mine and smelter.
Not only are the region's people protesting, but also authorities in the area, who have announced the start of an indefinite hunger strike.
Fourteen mayors in Moquegua have begun a hunger strike, stating the government is being indifferent to demands being made.
Panamericana highway has been blocked at several different points.
To make matters worse, the country's largest federation of mining unions has threatened to strike on June 30 if a bill to improve benefits for workers is not approved.
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