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Guatemalan Elders to Demand
Pension
Thousands of Guatemalan elderly
people without social security
will begin protests on Friday to
demand pensions included in the
Elderly Law, recently suspended
by the Court of
Constitutionality.
Hector Montenegro, leader of the
National Association of Elderly
People without Social Security,
asserted that they will fight
for the economic assistance,
which is equivalent to $66 a
month.
Retired people of the Guatemalan
Social Security Institute will
join the protests.
Many of them are receiving
minimum pensions after having
worked and paid their bills for
more than 30 years.
The judges´ main argument to
suspend the Elderly Law was that
the State would go bankrupt if
it were implemented.
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