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Teachers led massive marches throughout Argentina today to demand justice for Carlos Fuentealba, a 42-year-old public educator who died last week after a policeman shot him at close range in the head with a tear gas canister.
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Teachers led massive marches throughout Argentina today to demand justice for Carlos Fuentealba, a 42-year-old public educator who died last week after a policeman shot him at close range in the head with a tear gas canister.
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Aired March 9, 2007 on FSRN
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In Latin America - Argentina?s teachers and trade unions participated in a nationwide strike today to protest police violence against teachers in the Southern province of Neuquen. FSRN?s Marie Trigona reports from Buenos Aires.
Teachers led massive marches throughout Argentina today to demand justice for Carlos Fuentealba, a 42-year-old public educator who died last week after a policeman shot him at close range in the head with a tear gas canister. Argentina?s main teachers union is holding a 24-hour strike, while the state-worker umbrella unions held a 2-hour work stoppage. This included public transportation workers. Teachers in white work smocks led the march in Buenos Aires, carrying letters which spelled out "Nunca Mas" or "Never again". Alejandra Bonatto is a Buenos Aires public school teacher from the Union of Education Workers (sound): "This protest is against Governor Sobich...
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