Honduras National Police, together with some members of the Army, on Wednesday returned to suppress a march organized by students and teachers to reject a law that promotes privatization education. The uniformed poisoning caused several of the students with tear gas.
Local sources said that security forces fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse the teachers and students of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH) who had blocked a boulevard in the capital, Tegucigalpa, in a peaceful protest.
face of armed aggression, many rescuers had to go to the Red Cross to house facilities of higher education to meet people poisoned with gases, mostly students.
the past two weeks, security forces in Honduras have been constant attacks on education-related associations.
Last week, the attacks claimed the lives of a teacher and caused dozens of injuries and arrests.
Despite the repression, the president of the Professional College Teachers Union of Honduras, said Edgardo Casaña teleSUR last Monday that teachers will continue "in struggle" for the vindication of their rights and against the privatization of education in the Central American country.
turn, Casaña also reported that the Honduran legislature intended to dismiss all teachers who are protesting.
"At this time members of Congress are planning to start illegal dismissal against teachers who are participating in the fight, along with peasants, trade unionists and fathers and mothers who have taken the country's schools" , teachers' leader said to teleSUR.
The threat came after the police cracked down on 25 000 teachers in Tegucigalpa Honduras protesting against the transfer of educational responsibilities to local municipal governments, a fact considered a form of privatization of education.
educational professionals also require the payment of salary arrears from 2010 to about three thousand teachers.
addition to these protests against the government led by Porfirio Lobo have also expressed other unions, including the carriers, who have demanded repeal the increase the price of fuel, and other sectors, who opposed the increase in basic food products.
Source: TeleSur
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