In most of the streets of the world you can see a person cleaning the windows of cars at the corners of the traffic lights; This is a panorama that in countries like Colombia or Peru has become the daily life of the inhabitants.
However, In the Andean country, a battle is brewing to allow or totally prohibit this work that we get so used to seeing.
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Prohibit the work of vehicle window cleaners or offer them a formal job to guarantee job securityThese are the two strongly rooted positions in Peru. All due to what happened last Wednesday, April 5, in the streets of Lima, the capital of the Andean country.
A homicide committed on a taxi driver on April 5 in the streets of the Santiago de Surco district, in the southwestern area of Metropolitan Lima, was the spark that detonated the strong debate whose positions are still divided within the mayors of the different districts of the Peruvian capital.
The labor minister of Peru, Alfonso Adrianzén, played his first cards this Sunday and indicated that car cleaners are informal workers, but they should not be stigmatized.
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It is the solution for those who seek security, but not for those who have to create a job to survive
He recommended that municipalities register people to formalize the office. The mayor of La Victoria indicated that he would sign a mayoral decree to ban this activity in his district.
For his part, the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, followed the voices of many citizens enraged by the murder and asked the Metropolitan Council to approve an ordinance to eliminate this trade from all of Lima.
Regarding this measure, Mayor López Aliaga told the press that “it is a continuation of the intangibility rule. Metropolitan Lima has power over the metropolitan roads and in the Historic Center of Lima”.
clash of postures
We do not need someone to be killed to realize that they were acting violently and illegally.
Along the same lines, the President of the Judiciary, Javier Arévalo Vela, expressed his in favor of the provision which will be dictated by the mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga.
“My full support for the mayor. He is going to issue a provision to avoid this type of situation, ”he told Canal N.
However, the labor minister, Alfonso Adrianzén, was more critical of the ban, which has been supported by various authorities and at the same time criticized by some specialists.
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Dear Álvaro: I will request that it be approved as an Ordinance or Council Agreement in the next Session of the Metropolitan Mayor’s Office. You’re right. We have the right to live in peace and order. Kind regards.
– Rafael López Aliaga (@rlopezaliaga1) April 7, 2023
It cannot be prohibited, what can be regulated. What the State can do is register.
“It is the solution for those who seek security, but not for those who have to create a job to survive,” said Minister Adrianzén.
He added that “in this case, they are informal jobs, but they should not be stigmatized either. The events that have occurred are unfortunate and painful, but Not all the people who dedicate themselves to this trade can be classified as alleged murderers.he told Channel N.
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The job holder recommended that the communes register people who are engaged in informal services. Also, give them the opportunity to work with dignity.
The tragic murder that ignited the debate
He fateful murder of a driver by a windshield wiper at the intersection of Grau and Abancay avenues, in La Victoria, last Wednesday, It has generated indignation in the population as well as in the authorities.
After this incident, the mayor of Surco, Carlos Bruce, issued mayoral decree N 08-2023-MSS which prohibits the ambulatory activity of washing windshields and others on public roads.
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This measure was joined by the mayor of Lima, who indicated that will request that this work be prohibited throughout Lima. He maintained that he will request an ordinance or agreement from the Metropolitan Council to prohibit the work of windshield wipers.
As a result of acts of violence that have been occurring in the capital, today I have signed a mayoral decree ordering the Serenazgo, in coordination with the National Police, to eradicate the activity of window cleaners and car washers on public roads in Surco . pic.twitter.com/VphRDdoarC
— Carlos Bruce – Techito (@Carlos_Bruce) April 9, 2023
The facts
A Venezuelan subject identified as José Alberto Giró Hoyner, who is dedicated to cleaning vehicle windshields in the streets of downtown Lima stabbed to death a driver, identified as Gian Marco Caro Núñez, who refused to accept his service.
Latina indicated that the man and his wife were at the intersection of Abancay and Grau avenues when they were approached by the subject to clean their vehicle, however, Caro Núñez did not accept because her unit was clean.
We threw them out in January with an order that prohibits washing cars
After that, the driver got out of his car and had an argument with the subject. When it seemed that everything had calmed down, the criminal appeared and attacked the victim with scissors at the height of the heart. Then he escaped from the place.
The injured man was taken in his vehicle to the Grau Emergency Hospital, but he died due to the seriousness of the injury. The murderer was captured by the Police on the night of that same Wednesday.
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After the capture of the person responsible, the driver’s relatives beat José Alberto Giró Hoyner, a Venezuelan citizen.
Agents from the Cotabambas police station in the Cercado de Lima were transferring the murderer when, heading towards another environment, they found the relatives, who did not hesitate to pull his hair and beat him with their hands.
The troops of the National Police intervened to separate the relatives of the victim.
#Peru | Relatives of the driver Gianmarco Núñez, who was stabbed to the heart by a windshield wiper at the intersection of Grau and Abancay avenues in La Victoria, beat the perpetrator of the crime, José Alberto Giró Hoyner, a Venezuelan citizen. pic.twitter.com/2kqfd0kuwC
—Randy Correa (@RandyCorreaVE) April 6, 2023
A complex landscape
One month ago, Trade aired an episode of the #PasaEnLaCalle campaign where he showed the violence that some windshield wipers had in front of the drivers.
They are informal jobs, but they should not be stigmatized either
Many times when the driver says he doesn’t want the window cleaning serviceThey react violently with stones, damaging cars and in the most serious cases affecting the lives of drivers, like last Wednesday.
“As a sector we are concerned, but there are also local authorities that have a Serenazgo, that they have ways to contain these actions that could break the law. It is difficult to register them, but not impossible,” he said.
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The mayors who join the restrictive measures
Trade He spoke with some district municipalities of Lima and the majority were in favor of eradicating the windshield wipers.
He The last mayor to join the restrictive positions was Hernán Sifuentes Barcathe mayor of the San Martín de Porres district, who affirmed that they will seek to promote an ordinance that prevents the activity of windshield wipers in its streets.
“Also fine and punish the people who do this,” said the mayor for ATV News.
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However, Sifuentes Baca stressed that Only those people with disabilities and duly registered will be able to work as windshield wipers.
It turns out that this is an invasive and extortionate culture
Francis Allison, mayor of Magdalena, assured that in his district they are already prohibited. “We kicked them out in January with an ordinance that prohibits washing cars. We don’t need someone to be killed to realize that they were acting violently and illegally.”said.
“Windshield wipers are prohibited. It turns out that this is an invasive and extortionary culture,” said Rubén Cano, the mayor of La Victoria.
Total more than ten local authorities have already taken action against the windshield wipers, claiming that they are a danger to citizens and a threat to security.
Does the prohibition violate the right to work?
Trade He consulted with Mayor Bruce if the municipality is working on a plan to register people who work as car washers to formalize this work within the municipality. However, the mayor maintained that it was not; “We are going to completely eradicate it,” he said.
For the labor lawyer, Jorge Toyama, this could be unconstitutional because there is an absolute prohibition. “It cannot be prohibited, what can be regulated. What the State can do is register. It is more difficult, but it is the balance between the right to work and the safety of people”, he explained.
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(Empadronar) is more difficult, but it is the balance between the right to work and security of people
In addition, he gave as an example the municipalities where there are street vendors with their kiosks or newspaper vendors or parking lotssince these are formal and work under the supervision of the commune.
Along the same lines, Julio César Castiglioni, a specialist in municipal and electoral issues, explained that noor it should be pursued, but formalized. “The local government is a promoter of local development. A promoting government cannot be a persecuting government”, said Castiglioni.
On the other hand, Martín De Azevedo, president of the Peruvian Institute of Municipal Management, iHe indicated that although the right to work is one that must be fulfilled, it must be done under the law. He added that it must be carried out under security conditions that do not put other people at risk.
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