[NYTr] Peru in Crisis as Protests Increase
 
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:18:52 -0500 (CDT)


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Granma Daily - Jul 14, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art10.html

Strikes Throw Peru into Its Worst Crisis

LIMA, Jul 13b The third day of strikes convulsing Peru took place as
members of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGPT) poured
onto the streets again to demonstrate against the imprisonment of over
100 teachers, informed EFE news agency.

DESPITE POLICE REPRESSION, DEMONSTRATORS FLOOD THE STREETS.

The police used tear against demonstrators in the proximities of the
CGTP headquarters in Lima.

Teachers are on an indefinite strike since July 5th to show their
opposition to the enactment of the polemic Public Teaching Career Law.
The general strike called by CGPT demands a more egalitarian
distribution of wealth in the country and rejects the policies of the
Alan Garcia administration.

Protests are also taking place in other cities; in the southern city of
Arequipa people are supporting the strike by blocking public roads.

In Puno, the citizens blocked the road to Arequipa and Cuzco, reported
Andina official news agency.

President Alan Garcia travelled to La Libertad, in the north, to find
the rejection of teachers there, same as in Moquegua and Tacna, said
and official source to EFE news agency. In Ica, next to Lima, the Pan
Am Highway is also closed.

Experts consider that these protests are the worst crisis ever faced by
the administration of Alan Garcia, when there are less than 15 days to
reach the first year of his second term in office. 

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Granma Daily - 12 July, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art51.html

Protests Extend in Peru

LIMA, July 11.b Teachers, workers and citizens belonging to different
civic organizations joined in a national protest campaign by setting up
roadblocks and occupying offices to protest against the government of
President Alan Garcia.

Garcia admonished the demonstrators and authorized the armed forces to
intervene to prevent disturbances, reported AP on Wednesday.

A 13-year-old girl died Tuesday when she was struck on the head by a
log thrown by strikers at police trying to clear a blocked highway in
the Andean city of Apurimac.

Thousands of demonstrators crashed the Juliaca airport, 845 kilometers
southeast of Lima, taking over the runway and burning the homes of
airport personnel, reported the Puno Police. Flights were cancelled.

Likewise, in Arequipa, citizens blocked a portion of the Pan American
South Highway as well as the road from Arequipa to Puno, as part of a
prolonged strike.

In Cuzco, Perubs top tourist destination, teachers, bus drivers and
other workers placed obstacles at the entrance and exit to the city.
Train services to the famous Incan city of Machu Picchu were cancelled
for security reasons.
       
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