strike in La Guajira: they lift the blockade and hold a technical table - Other Cities - Colombia

La Guajira remained incommunicado for nearly two days. with the department of Cesar, due to the multiple blockades registered on the road, in protest of the breach of the agreements reached with the National Government in the civic strike carried out in 2019.

The Departmental Civic Strike committee decided to accept the proposal of the governor of La Guajira, Nemesio Roys, to lift the blockades while the technical tables for reviewing the agreements are carried out, which will be installed this Friday with the arrival of several vice ministers.

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“The purpose is to see the breaches, to have the commitment in the different activities that were not carried out,” said the governor.

They claim poor road conditions and insecurity

We hope that the talks with the National Government will be fruitful and that agreements will be reached

Likewise, he pointed out that the rise in mobility will depend on the agreements and the fulfillment of the commitments by the officials who arrive from the National Government.

He also stressed that with the temporary suspension of the strike, the members of the committee are demonstrating civility and support for all citizens of La Guajiro.

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“We hope that the conversations with the National Government are fruitful and that agreements are reached,” said Roys.

Among the issues they claim are: the poor state of the Cuestecitas – La Jagua del Pilar road, insecurity, the reopening of the Ranchería River dam, the proposed redistribution of subsidized fuel quotas and the construction of the La Florida road – Cuestecitas that is still undefined.

The increase of 2,300,000 gallons
in the share of subsidized gasoline

Although the Cuestecitas – La Jagua del Pilar road is undergoing maintenance, it has not been as Invías proposed at the time, the commitment was to change most of the asphalt layer and not repair it, to which is added that they began to be damaged some sections that had been improved.

The issue of subsidized gasoline is another critical point, because La Guajira went from a quota of 2,500,000 to 4,800,000 gallons, and still does not meet the needs of the department.

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The increase of 2,300,000 gallons in the quota of subsidized gasoline, equivalent to 92 percent, generated disagreement about its distribution, they consider that there is no equity, since some municipalities tripled consumption, while others did not receive even a gallon.

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Civil servants in one of Iran’s most powerful sectors, the judiciary, held rare demonstrations on Sunday against the government’s refusal to increase their pay.

Ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi, who assumed his post in August, had proposed a salary hike in the last weeks of his previous job as judicial chief.

But the new government which he leads changed its mind.

Hit by severe economic sanctions imposed since 2018 by the United States, Iran has seen its inflation rate surge to close to 60%.

Shargh, a newspaper representing the reformist viewpoint, on Sunday published video of a protest by hundreds of men and women in front of parliament in Tehran.

“If our problem is not resolved, we will shut down the justice system!” they chanted.

Another reformist paper, Arman Melli, reported: “Some judicial personnel organized rallies yesterday [Saturday] in most of the country’s cities to protest the rejection of the plan for parliament to increase their salaries.”

The demonstrators held up signs with slogans declaring that “justice workers are unable to support themselves” and decrying the “hypocrisy of the government and parliament.”

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