Teachers also say Colombia’s government broke promises
Teachers also say Colombia’s government broke promises
posted by Steven Cohen
Aug 5, 2013
Colombia’s teachers are joining a chorus of sectors threatening to go on strike over Colombia’s government’s alleged failure to honor agreements made after earlier strikes.
In an echo of the coffee workers’ protests in July that spawned the recent chain of civil unrest developing throughout the country, the Federation of Colombian Education Workers (FECODE) organized its Day of National Movilization and Protest last Thursday in response to what it says are unsatisfied obligations on the part of the federal government.
Both the coffee growers and the teachers blame the government of not keeping promises made to end earlier strikes.
In an interview with Colombia Reports, FECODE Secretary General Rafael Cuello Ramirez detailed the issues at stake.
“Last May 21, we signed an act of agreement with the Education Ministry; those terms, however, have been delayed by the national government, specifically the Minister of Education. We agreed on a text, and it was written, but the spirit of what was agreed to hasn’t come to fruition.”
The most blaring inconsistency has to do with the State’s allegedly continued delinquency on the sizable debts it owes its education employees.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/new-protests/