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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Nicaragua: Popular movement pressures government
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- /** reg.nicaragua: 76.0 **/
- ** Topic: GL: Popular Movement **
- ** Written 6:27 pm Dec 10, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: GL: Popular Movement
-
- /* Written 6:40 pm Dec 8, 1992 by greenleft@peg.UUCP in igc:greenleft.news */
- Popular movement pressures Nicaraguan government
-
- By Stephen Marks
-
- MANAGUA - Workers and campesinos affiliated to the National
- Workers Front (FNT) marched on the offices of President Violetta
- Chamorro in Managua on November 25 as negotiations started
- between FNT leaders and the Nicaraguan government.
-
- The 15,000 marchers protested the deterioration of public health,
- privatisation, the sacking of teachers' union activists, lack of
- jobs and job security, and the expulsion from school of students
- involved in protests in September.
-
- Addressing the marchers before joining the rest of the
- negotiating team FNT leader Luci Jimnez emphatically rejected any
- return of property to the Somozistas.
-
- The Somoza family and cronies swindled and robbed Nicaraguans at
- will until the 1979 Sandinista revoltuion ended their 50 year
- reign. Somozista businesses were nationalised and their lands
- were distributed amongst poor families. Many of Somoza's former
- clique are now US citizens and have returned to resteal their old
- properties.
-
- The government is using privatisation as a cover to return many
- of these properties or ``compensate'' the Somozistas. Workers are
- demanding that the government abide by previous accords that
- promised the privatisation of all or a part of state enterprises
- in favour of the workers.
-
- The rally mobilised people from around the country. Barricada
- newspaper reported that 39 vehicles bussed 2500 people down from
- Jinotega and Matagalpa in the North. Many of the roads in central
- Managua were lined with these trucks and trailers during the
- protest.
-
- Four marches fed into the demonstration from various points
- around the capital. Workers filed out of large enterprises such
- as the Victoria Beer Company and metal workshops. They joined up
- with striking electricity workers fighting privatisation,
- hospital workers demanding improved pay and hospital budgets, and
- peasants demanding the legalisation of their land titles.
-
- Called ``Plan B'' by the union leaders the march is part of an
- ongoing campaign by the popular movements to remedy the drastic
- poverty inflicted by 70% unemployment and government policies.
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.nicaragua **
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