With Sense Magazine, May 18 . At least about 6 thousand people rallied today in the main streets of the city Huamanga, amid a 24-hour province-wide strike called by the Front for the Defence of the People of Ayacucho, against granting the bus terminal to a foreign consortium.
Early on small bites of protesters gathered in different parts of the city, in order to prevent the movement of some public service units, the day before, had secured off work and join the strike .
Hours later, the various representations union, both unions, market associations, mothers' clubs and other popular organizations, began to focus on the premises of the Casa del Maestro to start with the mobilization principal.
The displacement of the crowd crossed the Plaza Mayor of the city and moved to the Central Assembly shred where a huge mass of people showed signs of the successful call.
And while some local media reported a smaller number of demonstrators, the images accompanying this note attest to another picture.
About noon, the crowd gathered at the front of the Provincial Municipality of Huamanga, where a small rally was improvised from where a group of fearless grassroots leaders rejected the accusation of the governor of Ayacucho, Eduardo Morales, applying white terrorism, attempting to the date of arrest relating to the anniversary of the armed struggle is remembered every 17 May.
The objective of APRA-governor said in his speech as the leader of Sutep, Cleto Flacon, would have been cause fear among the population to prevent it from participating and abide by the strike called by Defense Coalition. However, the date, as was amply clear, is related to the need to press the mayor of Huamanga, Germain Martinelli, for tomorrow, Wednesday, at the special meeting of City Council, requested by a council sector, set the suspension of process of granting the bus terminal to the company Socicam Brazil, a consortium that won the bid in the middle of a questionable bidding and the conditions of administration have been considered disadvantageous by a sector of the population of Ayacucho.
Socicam will benefit 80% of the revenue generated with the economic movement around the bus terminal, while the Municipality of Huamanga only have 20%.
regard, the Mayor Martinelli replied that those 80% will be distributed in streams and other expenses to be generated from the management terminal, a version not totally convinced the local community. Protesters also
rejected the leasing of land intended to Plaza Vea university.
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