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CENTRALAMERICANEWS
| Saturday 21 August 2010 |
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Honduras
Teachers'
Strike
Enters
16th Day
TEGUCIGALPA
- The
Honduran
teachers'
strike
entered
its 16th
day on
Friday
without
reaching
an
agreement
with the
government
of
Porfirio
Lobo.
Teachers
are
demanding
that the
government
pays its
debt to
the
sector
of over
$200
million,
and that
it raise
the
minimum
wage, a
demand
shared
by other
trade
unions.
Joel
Almendarez,
president
of the
teachers'
union,
Colpedagogosh,
said the
situation
was
growing
more
difficult
by the
hour,
given
that
students
are
caught
in the
middle
of the
stalled
negotiations
and have
missed
12 days
of
classes.
Porfirio
Lobo
ousted
president-elect
Manuel
Zelaya
through
a bloody
coup in
2009.
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