Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:51:58 +0200 From: Robert Malecki <malecki-AT-algonet.se> Subject: M-I: Re: Woman dies as Argentine teachers, police clash >Woman dies as Argentine teachers, police clash< > BUENOS AIRES (Reuter) - Argentine security forces and >teachers who have been on strike for over a month clashed >Saturday, leaving a 23-year-old woman dead and 13 others >injured, a government official said. > The victim, identified as Teresa Rodriguez, was hit in the >neck by a stray bullet as strikers clashed with border guard >forces on national highway 2 near the towns of Cutral-Co and >Plaza Huincol in Neuquen province.</P> > The confrontation occurred after teachers and local >residents burned tires and set up barricades along a highway in >a southern province, authorities said. > The woman was taken to a hospital and died hours later from >the wound inflicted by a 32-calibre bullet. > Interior Minister Carlos Corach said the bullet was not >fired by the border guard forces. > In a news conference, he said the national government would >deploy federal troops to quell the unrest in Neuquen on the >request of Gov. Felipe Sapag. > Legislators from the national center-left alliance Frepaso >called for the minister's resignation over the riots, during >which border guard forces hurled tear gas bombs and shot rubber >bullets at protesters. > Also in Buenos Aires Saturday night a large crowd led by >CTERA national teachers union marched outside the national >Congress building to protest the repression in Neuquen. > CTERA, whose leaders have been on hunger strike for the past >10 days to press labor claims, called a nationwide teachers >strike for Monday to back their Neuquen colleagues. > Thirteen people were injured and 20 arrested in the rioting, >which erupted after 33 days of strike action that has delayed >the start of the school year in Neuquen. > Teachers are protesting wage cuts and possible firings and >first clashed with police at the end of March when they blocked >off a bridge linking Neuquen and Rio Negro provinces. > Sapag, of the Peronist Party, had declared the strike >illegal but his decision was overruled in court. > Sapag Saturday denounced ``armed ideological groups'' who he >said were leading the protest and requested assistance from the >federal government to handle the crisis. > National Cabinet Chief Jorge Rodriguez said the protests had >political connotations ``because teachers in Neuquen are among >the best paid in the country.'' > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My HomePage where you can, Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! Or Get The Latest Issue of, COCKROACH, a zine for poor and working-class people and now starting the "Never Ending Story"... http://www.algonet.se/~malecki Back issues of Cockroach and my book at http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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