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WNU #993: Haitian Students Protest for Minimum Wage
Tear gas filled the downtown area during the protests. Three students from a primary school were hospitalized after breathing the fumes on June 4, and two women fainted. The hospital wards were filled with the fumes and parents were forced to run out of the building carrying sick and injured children. The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) described this as a “barbaric intervention by the forces of order.”
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #993, June 14, 2009
1. Haiti: Students Protest for Minimum Wage
2. Dominican Republic: Campesinos Protest Cement Factory
3. Peru: Radio Silenced, Legislators Suspended
4. In Other News: Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua
5. Links to alternative sources on: Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti
ISSN#: 1084‑922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Haiti: Students Protest for Minimum Wage
On June 3 students from the State University of Haiti (UEH) began a series of militant demonstrations to protest the failure of President René Préval to promulgate a measure raising the minimum wage from 70 gourdes ($1.74) a day to 200 gourdes ($4.97)--the first increase since 2003. Although Parliament finished the process of approving the measure on May 4, it will not become law until it is approved by the president and published in the official gazette, Le Moniteur [see Update #989]. Students from various UEH faculties have been protesting over academic issues at different times since February [see Update #983]. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/06/wnu-993-haitian-students-protest-for.html
Issue #993, June 14, 2009
1. Haiti: Students Protest for Minimum Wage
2. Dominican Republic: Campesinos Protest Cement Factory
3. Peru: Radio Silenced, Legislators Suspended
4. In Other News: Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua
5. Links to alternative sources on: Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti
ISSN#: 1084‑922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Haiti: Students Protest for Minimum Wage
On June 3 students from the State University of Haiti (UEH) began a series of militant demonstrations to protest the failure of President René Préval to promulgate a measure raising the minimum wage from 70 gourdes ($1.74) a day to 200 gourdes ($4.97)--the first increase since 2003. Although Parliament finished the process of approving the measure on May 4, it will not become law until it is approved by the president and published in the official gazette, Le Moniteur [see Update #989]. Students from various UEH faculties have been protesting over academic issues at different times since February [see Update #983]. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/06/wnu-993-haitian-students-protest-for.html
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