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WORLD NEWSThursday 22 March 2018
ILO will see if Venezuela violated employers rights Thousands in Rio
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The ILO said Wednesday The investigation comes accused the government demand answers
— The International Labor it had set up a commis- after Venezuelan business- of raising the country's mini-
Organization is investigat- sion to determine whether people accused the gov- mum wage multiple times on Franco death
ing if Venezuela's gov- Venezuela violated treaties ernment of trying to break and taking economic de-
ernment violated global related to the right of em- up the national employer's cisions without setting up a By MARIO LOBAO
accords that protect the ployers to form associations group. consultation mechanism. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) —
political and economic and be consulted when In a complaint filed with q Thousands of Brazilians this
rights of employers. minimum wages are set. the ILO in 2015, they also week demanded answers
about the assassination
Peru's president offers resignation amid turmoil of Rio de Janeiro council-
woman Marielle Franco,
By FRANKLIN BRICENO Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski talks on his cellphone as he vacates the Government Pal- an attack that has shaken
JOSHUA GOODMAN ace also known as the House of Pizarro, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. The embattled the nation and remains a
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Embat- Peruvian leader has offered his resignation to Congress ahead of a scheduled vote on whether to mystery a week later.
tled President Pedro Pablo impeach the former Wall Street investor, according to a presidential aide. Artists, activists and Fran-
Kuczynski offered up his co's sister spoke during an
resignation Wednesday (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) emotional evening protest
ahead of an impeach- that included calls for an
ment vote, seeking to put caught allegedly trying to tial rivals and boost his al- Kuczynski of orchestrating independent investigation
an end to a debilitating buy the support of an op- most unlimited power. the alleged vote-buying into the death of the activ-
political drama playing position lawmaker to block Kenji Fujimori led a group scheme. On Twitter Tues- ist who frequently criticized
out just three weeks before the conservative leader's of rebellious lawmakers in day she regretted her police brutality, particu-
the Andean nation is set to impeachment. December who defied his younger brother's appear- larly against blacks in poor
host U.S. President Donald The videos presented by sister Keiko's leadership of ance in one of the videos, communities.
Trump for a regional sum- the main opposition party the Popular Force party to which she said harkened "It's black blood in the
mit. In a nationwide tele- purportedly show attempts narrowly block Kuczynski's back to "practices that street. Another warrior who
vised address, Kuczynski, by Kuczynski's lawyer, a removal. Days later, Kuc- have caused so much has fallen," said protester
with his cabinet standing government official, and zynski pardoned the feud- damage to Peru and our Carla Moura, adding that
behind him, said he didn't Fujimori's son Kenji trying to ing siblings' father from a family." Kuczynski also re- "repression will not silence
want to become an obsta- convince the lawmaker to 25-year jail sentence for hu- ferred to the dark past, say- our voices."
cle to Peru's development. back the president in ex- man rights abuses commit- ing it recalled "sad periods Franco and a driver were
But the former Wall Street change for a hand in state ted during his decade-long in Peru's history that we shot and killed last week af-
investor lashed out at op- contracts in his district. presidency. thought had been over- ter she had participated in
ponents led by the daugh- Kuczynski said the videos A new impeachment vote come. The videos released an event on empowering
ter of former strongman had been heavily edited had been scheduled to Tuesday portray the presi- black women. Her death
Alberto Fujimori for plotting to smear him and recalled take place Thursday and dent's allies trying to lure has touched a nerve with
his overthrow with dam- practices from "sad days Kuczynski was once again lawmaker Moises Mamani many in a nation where
aging leaks of confiden- of Peru's history that we been scrambling for sup- to their side with promises more than 50 percent
tial documents that raised thought had been over- port — a task made hard- of lucrative contracts. identify as black or mixed
doubts about his integrity come." He was referring er by the release of the In one exchange, Freddy race, but where most poli-
during his six-decade long to Fujimori's longtime spy videos, which fueled calls Aragon, the head of the ticians are white men.
career in private business. chief, Vladimiro Mon- from some of Kuczynski's government agency regu- The long-time activist was
"I don't want my country, tesinos, who was known allies and members of his lating firearms, tells Mamani elected to the city coun-
nor my family, to continue to secretly record himself cabinet for the president to that he stands to pocket 5 cil in 2016 and had been
suffering through the un- paying cash bribes to me- immediately resign. percent of future public a vocal critic of the mili-
certainty of recent times," dia moguls, military officers Keiko Fujimori, who has works projects authorized tary's takeover of security
he said, adding that the and politicians in efforts to publicly distanced herself by the executive branch in in Rio the last month amid
campaign in favor of his re- gain leverage over poten- from her father, accused his district.q a spike in violence.
moval had caused "enor- For many, she was a sym-
mous damage" to Peru's bol of change because
democracy. she herself emerged from
Congress must still accept Mare, a warren of slums
his resignation before pow- that is one of Rio's rough-
er can transfer to Vice Pres- est areas. Latin America's
ident Martin Vizcarra, who largest nation is one of the
is currently serving as Peru's most unequal in the world,
ambassador to Canada making Franco's rise in poli-
and wasn't present for Kuc- tics all the more unusual.
zynski's announcement. A large banner at the pro-
Some lawmakers were test outlined several as-
seeking to deny Kuczynski pects of Franco that drew
his one last act of govern- many Brazilians to her.
ment and demanded that "Marielle: Woman, moth-
he be prohibited from leav- er, revolutionary, feminist,
ing the country. black, lesbian, fight, al-
Pressure has been build- ways," it read.
ing on Kuczynski to resign No arrests have been
after the shock revelation made and it’s still unclear
Tuesday of secretly-shot what motivated the at-
videos in which several of tack. Anielle Silva, Franco’s
the president's allies were sister, told protesters she
would not rest until the
case was solved.q
