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Nicaraguan University Students
Warn IMF
Nicaraguan university students
and leaders denounced on Friday
that the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) seeks to eliminate
budget allocations to
universities, and warned that
they would defend them at any
cost.
The IMF has said to be
interested in a check of the
six-percent allocation. They
have said there can not be a
budget assignment in the
Political Constitution, National
University Council (CNU)
President Telemaco Talavera
asserted.
The university leader told the
loc al press that would be one
of the main demands by the
international organization,
headquartered in Washington, of
the Sandinista government when
they negotiate the new economic
agreement soon.
Talavera revealed that he sent a
letter to the IMF representative
the previous week, to discuss
the issue.
Nicaraguan National Student
Union (UNEN) President Cesar
Perez warned that they would not
tolerate any imposition in
relation to the six percent.
"We accept a reform of the law,
as long as the university
students are those who demand
it, but not that the deputies or
external agents come to impose a
reform," the student leader
asserted.
According to Perez, the IMF has
never been interested in a State
subvention to higher education.
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