----- Original Message ----- From: "Worker" <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> To: <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: (en) Peru: [MEDIA] Victory for the people of Arequipa!
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> AREQUIPA: GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS PRIVATISATION OF EGASA AND EGESUR
> POWER PLANTS
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> A night of celebrations in Arequipa, second city of Perù, where
> violent protests have taken place over the past days against the
> privatisation policy of the government of Lima. Ten-thousand
> people gathered last night in Plaza de Armas, lead by the Mayor
> Juan Manuel Guillén, to celebrate the suspension of the sale of
> the Egasa and Egesur power plants, decided by the government.
> The mobilisation is therefore over for the moment, with the
> undersigning of the so-called ?Arequipa Declaration? yesterday
> by the local authorities and "high level" commission, delegated
> by Lima and presided by the city?s emeritus Archbishop Fernando
> Vargas Ruiz de Somocurcio. The accord foresees that the
> privatisation of the two power plants remains suspended until a
> tribunal rules on an appeal presented by provincial authorities
> against the sale. The document also establishes the suspension
> of the state of emergency as of today and calls for the
> government to take measures for the insults against the local
> population by the Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs,
> Fernando Oliveira and Fernando Rospigliosi. The toll of the
> protests is of 2 dead, over a hundred injured and 52 arrested,
> as well as serious damage to infrastructures.
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> INTERIOR MINISTER ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
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> Peruvian Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi has presented
> his resignation due to his disagreement with the suspension of
> the privatisations, decided by the government of Lima to end the
> protests in Arequipa.
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