Honduran Teachers Protest Privatization,
Layoffs
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran teachers are marching
Thursday for several cities to protest
against layoffs, privatization of teaching
and the attempts of the government to
eliminate working achievements.
The marches and demonstrations started in
the capital and the departments of Morazán,
Yoro and Cortes, spreading to the cities of
Comayagua, Atlántida and Lempira, according
to leaders of the Federation of Teaching
Organizations of Honduras.
In Tegucigalpa, the teachers will protest
before the National Congress against a
general law project which wants to privatize
primary and secondary school teaching.
Honduran teachers also reject the intentions
to leave the National Teaching (Education)
Statute and other legislations guaranteeing
the rights the Honduran teachers have
acquired for years without effect.
Edwin Oliva, president of the Professional
College of Honduran Teachers, said that
there is no justification to leave the
National Teaching Statute without effect.
The teachers' organizations also demand the
reposition of 17 departmental and municipal
directors who have been laid off back to
their respective posts and expressed their
support to the strike by members of the
trade union of the National Autonomous
University to protest for the layoff of more
than 100 employees.
The National Popular Resistance Front
repudiated the most recent actions of the
oligarchy and the government to eliminate
the right to public education and the
sector's conquests.
According to the Front, because of the
situation after the coup and the implanting
of the neoliberal model, the only way out is
the installation of a National Constituent
Assembly to promote structural
transformations.
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