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WORLD NEWSFriday 28 August 2015
Chilean truck drivers reach capital to protest arson attacks
LUIS ANDRES HENAO the presidential palace mained unpunished,” In- dential palace waving a palace.
Associated Press in Santiago. But for hours terior Minister Jorge Bur- burned flag found at the A Mapuche indigenous
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — authorities denied them gos said, adding that he’s charred remains of his fam- healer was sentenced last
Chilean authorities on access on Thursday. They willing to meet with the ily’s home. “Government, year to 18 years in prison for
Thursday allowed truck have been towing vehicles truckers and hear their de- let the truckers show their the arson killings, a crime
drivers blocking roads out- they say were torched by mands. Violence in the Ma- burned trucks in an orga- that prompted a national
side Santiago to reach the Mapuche radical groups puche struggle escalated nized way, their agricul- debate about the Chilean
capital, ceding to their de- who are demanding a re- in 2013 with a string of ar- tural machinery, because state’s inability to manage
sire to protest against ar- turn of their ancestral lands son attacks, including one we can’t bring our burned violent disputes over an-
son attacks by indigenous and autonomous rule. in which Jorge Luchsinger’s homes, we can’t bring cestral indigenous lands.
rights militants. The drivers “I recognize that the state parents died defending all the things that they’ve The Mapuche, which
had traveled hundreds of has failed in the past when their property from hood- burned,” Luchsinger said means “people of the
miles (kilometers) from the for a long time — and way ed trespassers. On Thurs- as Mapuche Indians and earth” in their Mapudun-
south-central Araucania before this government day, Luchsinger reached drivers’ supporters clashed gun tongue, are Chile’s
region and hoped to reach — many of these acts re- a plaza in front of the presi- in front of the presidential largest indigenous group.q
Guatemalan prosecutors urge president to resign amid scandal
ALBERTO ARCE A concentration of hundreds gather in front of the National Palace calling for the resignation of roadblocks by demonstra-
Associated Press Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, in Guatemala City, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Pressure tors who want the president
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — grew Thursday on the embattled leader to resign as thousands marched from different parts of the to resign and the Sept. 6
Pressure grew Thursday capital, gathering in the National Plaza. presidential elections to be
on Guatemalan President postponed.
Otto Perez Molina to re- (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) Guatemala City’s main
sign as business and gov- square was a sea of blue-
ernment offices closed, to consider whether to re- Perez Molina, who could ters, who recently resigned and-white national flags
protesters marched by the move the president’s im- also face charges in a cus- from his cabinet, both and white-clad protesters
thousands and the attorney munity from prosecution, a toms fraud scheme, has left Guatemala between who chanted “Otto out!”
general’s office urged him process somewhat like im- not spoken publicly since Wednesday and Thursday, The demonstrations drew
to step down “to prevent peachment. But only one Sunday, when he denied the country’s immigration a broad range of Guate-
ungovernability that could member of the commission any involvement and said service confirmed. malans, from impoverished
destabilize the nation.” The was from the opposition, emphatically that he would Thousands of protesters Indians to the country’s up-
government comptrollers’ and a previous effort in not resign. But his former marched in the capital fol- per-middle class.
office also issued a state- congress failed. defense and interior minis- lowing days of intermittent “We usually don’t go to
ment saying Perez Molina, protests, because of fear,
whose administration has but now this is sending a
been shaken by corruption message of hope and an
scandals, should resign “to opportunity to educate our
avoid greater social unrest children, politically,” said
that could have unpredict- Mario Ovalle, 48, a lawyer
able consequences.” who attended the march
Even Guatemala’s national with his daughters, aged 9
Council of Bishops issued a and 12. “The exciting thing
statement saying “we be- is that this has brought to-
lieve the president should gether all classes of society,
reconsider his decision not with a common objective.”
to resign ... we fear that The marches included one
his current position could by college students, and
cause more polarization Eduardo Valdes, the rec-
and conflict in the coun- tor of the Jesuit Rafael
try.” Landivar University, said
Guatemala’s congress “the corruption ... has be-
named a commission of come unbearable for the
five legislators on Thursday people.”q
Mexico replaces security chief and foreign relations head
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- sion head Monte Alejan- helping Guzman escape. charge of Mexico’s stalled diplomatic post.
can President Enrique Pena dro Rubido was leaving the Rubido also faced stiff effort to reduce poverty. Changes were also made
Nieto replaced the coun- Cabinet. questioning over the lop- The former social develop- in the Cabinet-level posts in
try’s national security chief His replacement is Renato sided death toll in a federal ment head, Rosario Robles, education, agriculture and
on Thursday, 1 ½ months Sales, the current head of police shootout with drug will take over as head of the environment depart-
after top drug lord Joa- the anti-kidnapping com- suspects in May in which 42 urban and rural develop- ments.
quin “El Chapo” Guzman mission. suspects and one police- ment from former attor- Presidential adviser Aure-
escaped from a maximum Guzman’s July 11 escape man were killed. ney general Jesus Murillo lio Nuno will take over the
security prison. proved a major embarrass- Pena Nieto also named cur- Karam, who is leaving the education department,
Pena Nieto did not men- ment to the government. rent foreign relations sec- cabinet which has been locked in
tion the escape Thursday Several prison authorities retary Antonio Meade as Current tourism secretary disputes with radical teach-
when he announced that were fired and three guards the head of the social de- Claudia Ruiz Massieu will ers’ unions over teacher
National Security Commis- are on trial for allegedly velopment department, in take over the country’s top testing and other reforms.q
