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Urge Measures to Face Crisis
Guatemala - Peasants, natives, union leaders
and representatives of other sectors went
Tuesday on the Guatemalan capital in order
to demand measures to face the high cost of
life and the violence.
The demonstration, in which according to the
organizers some 20,000 people participated,
left from the four cardinal points of the
city and converged in front of the Congress
of the Republic and the Square of the
Constitution.
"We have taken the streets of the city in a
peaceful way to request the government the
delivery of lands and subsidies for houses,"
said the leader of the Unit of Trade Union
and Popular Action (UASP) Rubén Mazariegos
to Prensa Latina.
Because of the difficult joint caused by the
global crisis, the demonstrators also
demanded support for the grain small
producers and the discount in the prices of
the basic basket and the electricity
service.
The march made a stop in front of the US
Embassy to condemn the hauls and
deportations against the migrants.
"Our brothers are earning a living honestly
with their work and with the remittances
they are giving their children something to
eat," the UASP leader said.
Another of the popular demonstrations was
the ceasing of the attacks of criminal
groups and the organized crime against the
drivers and assistants of public
transportation.
"It is necessary to act all together, the
central government, the Congress, popular
organizations, to solve the problem of
violence affecting us all," said Pedro
Esquina, leader of the National Indigenous
Farmers Coordinating Office.
The demonstrators gave a sheet of paper with
their demands to the three powers of the
State: executive, legislative and judicial.
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