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May 16 A Day of Protest For the
High Cost of Gasoline
The protest planned by union
leaders for May 16 will change
it's tone. The original proposal
called for a protest against the
Tratado Libre de Comercio (TLC)
- free trade agreement with the
United States- however,
organizers now say that the
protest will be against the high
cost of gasoline.
The Asociación Nacional de
Empleados Públicos y Privados (ANEP)
said yesterday that the
objective of the protest is so
that the government review the
manner in which it handles the
price of gasoline and to avoid a
chain of price increases
resulting from the high cost of
the fuel.
In a press bulleting, ANEP, said
that "key factor" in the protest
is the gasoline issue, that is
totally out of control and is
abusing Costa Ricans.
On May 1st, ANEP and the other
unions made their protest march,
however it was not as successful
as they had hoped. The march on
that day was to let politicians
know of their discontent with
the TLC and the Riteve (the
vehicle inspection) situation.
Vargas says that the TLC is
still an objective of the
protest, however, the high cost
of gasoline is on everyone's
mind at the present time, a
situation that could see a
spiral of increasing costs.
The protest will affect most of
the public institutions as
public employees will heed the
call from their unions.
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