----- Original Message ----- From: "Worker" <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> To: <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:23 PM Subject: (en) Peru: [alt.media] Insurgence in Arequipa!
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> Support the Arequipazo!
> A state of emergency with the army on the streets to repress
> Peruvians. 2 dead and 200 injured in four days of pitched battle
> against the neoliberal model.
> Yesterday, Sunday, the Peruvian government decreed a "state
> of emergency" for a month in the region of Arequipa (Southern
> Peru) and sent 5,000 soldiers to repress the popular protests
> that have been going on for three days. President Alejandro
> Toledo is in hiding and the decree was announced by the
> vice-president Raul Diez Canseco from Government Palace.
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> Several government buildings, companies linked to multinational
> capital and the airport were practically destroyed by the
> popular
> uprising which broke out when the population of the state of
> Arequipa poured onto the streets to protest against the
> privatization of state companies and against the whole
> neoliberal model. The straw that broke the camel's back was the
> privatization of two local electricity companies in Arequipa
> whose sale was opposed by the population. The companies were
> bought by the Franco-Belgian company Tractebel. The government
> of Toledo fears that the protests could spread to the capital,
> Lima, or even to other regions of the country.
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