I heard that a few weeks ago that there was a death at a mine about half an hour drive away during a protest blocking its entrance.
The teachers have been on strike for the last few weeks, which means that many of the kids at Seeds don't haven't been going to school and have no homework. Consequently it's up to us to come up with activities for them which mostly surround English or Maths as they are the easiest to explain and correct.
On Thursday I stayed home most of the day video editing and I heard a protest coming down our street. See below for a short video. You can see in the foreground a guy pulling down his jeans perhaps to show his friends where he got hit or injured by something.
When the others got home from school they said that they had to dodge through the protestors and it got a little hairy. Novaplaza a supermarket near by and many of the other shops had all closed as to prevent damage to their property.
Apparently there have been times when protestors have taken tear gas and thrown them into near by stores.
On Friday morning while on a mission to find a photocopy shop that was able to photocopy a whole book of English worksheets I walked through a massive congregation of police all in their riot gear. So I thought best to keep on walking. I notice that some of them had large rifles and I wondered if this was to fire tear gas or rubber bullets. Needless to say I didn't stick around to find out.
On the way back home from school we went the scenic tour way back to the apartment to avoid the teacher protest coming down the main street. When the cost was clear and we got close to our street we had noticed that the protestors had placed large rocks on the streets to stop traffic, another way to make their point.
Despite all these protests I still feel very safe in Huaraz. You just have to be smart about it and avoid them where you can.
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