Paraguay, Lugo Talks With Popular Leaders
Asuncion - Paraguayan President
Fernando Lugo will meet today with popular
leaders leading a national protest demanding
agrarian reform and renovation of legal
power.
According to the leader of the Frente Social
y Popular, Belarmino Balbuena, the president
expressed his willingness to listen to
demands of farmers and other sectors in a
dialogue in the Presidential Palace of
Mburuvicha Roga in this capital.
Under the slogan of National Event of
Struggle for Change, Paraguayan social
organizations led for the third consecutive
day, meetings, marches and closure of roads
intermittently in this city and other
departments of the country.
The demonstrators demand speeding up the
government program of agrarian reform.
Hunger and impoverishments prevail in the
countryside, declared Marcos Ibanez of the
Frente Social y Popular.
Agreeing with Ibanez, Senator Sixto Pereira
of the official governing Movimiento
Tekojoja assailed the lethargy of the plan
that, in his opinion, is in contrast with
the advance achieved in subjects of energy
sovereignty and citizen participation.
Also questioned by the populace is the work
of parliamentarians and Supreme Court of
Justice. "We cannot continue this justice
that is too costly for the poor people and
very cheap for the rich who are not jailed,"
Ibanez declared.
Our struggle is to denounce "those who
legislate against the people who elected
them and protect the interests of the
powerful," added Tekojoja leader, Anibal
Carrillo.
Yesterday, Paraguayan Interior minister,
Rafael Filizzola, noted the compensation of
the Executive with the request of speeding
up changes.
We agree with some of the questions,
Filizzola pointed out, who requested a vote
of confidence of the demonstrators "to
introduce changes within institutional
measures."
According to the Paraguayan Head of State,
measures such as agrarian reform "must
necessarily touch on structures of
landholding."
Lugo also declared this week that one of the
powers that has most deficiencies in the
administration of Paraguay is legal power.
"Impunity still rules," he concluded. |
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