File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-18.201, message 71


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.''
>

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