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Guatemalan Teachers Protest
Privatization
Some 50,000 Guatemalan teachers
staged one of their biggest
demonstrations in this capital
on Wednesday, when they
protested against the
privatization of education and
for better conditions in the
sector.
The teachers, supported by
students and parents, gathered
at Constitution Square and
marched in two columns to the
Presidential House and Congress.
"Here is the voice of the people
fighting not only for their
needs and their rights, but for
true educational reforms
according to the peace
agreements," Carlos Gomez, of
the National Coordinator of
Teachers Schools, told Prensa
Latina.
"It is a march for dignity,
against neoliberal reforms on
education and to defend the
people´s just causes, like a
public school with access for
all," added Gomez.
The demonstrators in front of
Congress asked that State
institution to support their
demands, particularly a
15-percent wage rise and
rejection of the Framework Law.
Delegations from all 22
Guatemalan departments took to
the streets in the city´s
historic heart chanting slogans
and calling the government to
heed their demands.
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