la Paz, 16 feb (EFE).-more than a thousand doctors, health workers and teachers Bolivian collapsed today the center of La Paz in protest at the increasing the workday in the health sector and reforms in education decided by President Evo Morales.
Demonstrators cut off the main avenue of the city for several hours and claimed that the protest consolidates an Alliance of the three sectors for future joint mobilizations against the Executive.
The President of the medical school of peace, Luis Larrea, ratified that sector rejected the decree by Morales that increases of six to eight working hours because, said it cancelled a social conquest and does not solve problems in State hospitals.
“Want to impose a decree without seeing the bottom of the problem, is the need for more human resources, infrastructure and equipment in hospitals,” said Larrea.
Union leader Aril Cáceres, to social security workers, pointed out that the Covenant is also to fight for a pay rise above the Government offer, expected 7 per cent, because the 2011 inflation closed at 6.9%.
The leader of the teaching staff of La Paz, José Luis Ãlvarez, also stressed the Alliance of these sectors to defend their social achievements “in the streets” and oppose reforms of Morales which, in its view, affect the rights to health and education.
Doctors expressed by La Paz sang “less coca and more hospitals”, and the teachers shouted other slogans alluding to Bolivian President is leader of unions of producers of coca, the raw material of cocaine.
Hours before the March, Morales acknowledged that it has problems with the Magisterium and the health unions, and complained in a military ceremony that outside Bolivia his reforms are “more appreciation, more recognition”. EFE
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