Guatemala Bus Owners Threaten
to Strike
Guatemala - Transport owners in the Guatemalan metropolitan
area on Friday threatened to paralyze the service from the
municipalities to the capital, as a measure of pressure to maintain
high bus fares.
The strike will affect dozens of thousands of people who use the
service to get to workplaces or schools.
According to bus owners, the decree issued by the government to
regulate tariffs and adjust them to reduced oil prices was not
consulted with them before its taking into effect on Wednesday.
The 25-50 percent discount established with the new prices benefit
passengers of some 1,700 units that daily offer their services.
The government had allowed owners increase fares in mid 2008, when
diesel was charged over five dollars per gallon.
Though hydrocarbons prices dropped by nearly 60 percent, bus owners
maintained the same fares, thus arising complains within the
population.
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