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>From: EL NUEVO TOPO <giltapia@...>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2009 12:13 AM
>To: argentina_solidarity@yahoogroups.com
>Cc: workersdemocracy@...
>Subject: Peru-New Uprising
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>The Andean-Amazonian Strike in Peru is now taking place July 7, 8, 9. On the
first day, the
>strike competely shut down Arequipa in southern Peru, led by the teachers
union.The Panamerican Highway was blockaded as well as in Chincha. Also
complete shudowns of the cities of Puno, Ayacucho, and Juliaca in the Andes. In
Bagua, in the Amazon where the killings of indigenous people took place, a
march was prohibited by the police. Rather than confronting the police, the
thousands of demonstrators went around them to meet in the town center. In Lima
public transportation was shut down. Tupac Amaru Avenue was blockaded while
thousands gathered in a demonstration in the Plaza 2 de Mayo.
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>The demands of the demonstrators are: Repeal of the Free Trade Agreement with
the United States. Return of Alberto Pizango, head of the Amazonian movement,
now exiled in Nicaragua. Resignation of the cabinet of Prime Minister Yehude
Simon, responsable for the
>killing in Bagua on June 5th.
>Earl Gilman
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