File spoon-archives/marxism-news.archive/marxism-news_1997/marxism-news.9711, message 15


Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:09:40 -0500
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings)
Subject: M-NEWS: Castro deepens anti-proletarian solidarity with Fujimori regime


CUBAN AMBASSADOR campaigns in Lima together with Fujimori in order to
butress the fascist regime while starving teachers demand their right to a
living wage. 

>From Peruvian Newspaper La Republica 14/11/97:

Fujimori says that state employees will not have salaries raised.

Catcalls and whistles forced Fujimori to cut short his speech inaugurating a
school

President Fujimori said yesterday that there will not be no immediate raise
in salaries for teachers or any other state employees.  A few moments
earlier a group of teachers had loudly demanded that salaries be raised thus
preventing Fujimori from carrying on with the ceremony of the Republic of
Cuba school in the popular district of Comas.

After hastily concluding his speech because of the disturbances the teachers
had created, Fujimori took his leave from the Ambassadors of Cuba, Benito
Perez Fernandez, and Venezuela, Rodrigo Ancaya, who had been accompaniting
him in his tour, and departed immediately in the direction of another school.

The teachers of the school interrupted Fujimori's alocution with deafening
catcalls and whistles loudly demanding a raise in their salaries. Once well
away in another school and speaking with the media Fujimori recognised that
there is no doubt that the salaries of state employees are too low.  He said
that the government knows this, but it cannot be irresponsible and just
print money because that would be inflacionary........ blah, blah,
blah.......etc., etc.


     



   

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