Guatemalan Pensioners Protest
Guatemalan seniors continued protesting at the Constitutionality Court on Friday, after the suspension of the Pension law for those elderly with no families.

The protesters, who have been hunger striking since June, expressed their decision to continue demonstrating until achieving minimum public assistance for more than 60,000 people with no social aid.

Héctor Montenegro, who is the leader of the Elderly Association, said there will be assemblies all over the country from next Monday on, aimed at concluding new protest measures against suspension of the pension law.

The Court declared unconstitutional the law with the pretext that it does not specify a funding source for its implementation.

However, two of the five judges from that court expressed in an annex their rejection of that argument, since the legislation says that 1.89 percent of the Added Value Tax is destined to the seniors´ pensions.