Guatemalan Teachers Announce Rallies for
Budget
GUATEMALA - The teaching union of Guatemala
announced different actions on Tuesday as a
form to pressure the Congress to increase
the budget of the sector, while the
government appealed for a peaceful
development of them.
Sources of the union told Prensa Latina
about the mobilization of thousands of
teachers, who can get to block important
points in roads as the approaches to the
city and even airports.
The main demand is to increase the budget
item for the Ministry of Education for 2010
because the established sum will not
guarantee the continuity of free education,
for which they are asking for a meeting with
members of the congress.
Secretary of Social Communication of the
Presidency Ronaldo Robles affirmed that in
case that the demonstrations are carried
out, the dialogue will be used up to end
them.
He warned, however, that if they do not get
the expected results, "security forces
reserve the use of the mechanisms
established by law to guarantee the welfare
of most of the population."
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