Co-Dev: Teachers Beat a Strategic Retreat in Honduras
After almost 3 weeks of street protests and strikes during which security forces killed two protesters and beat and imprisoned hundreds more, Honduran teachers announced a “strategic retreat” on Monday April 4th.
The teachers, members of the 6 teachers colleges that make up the Federation of Honduran Teachers Organizations (FOMH), have been protesting the seizure of their pension fund and social security institute by the de facto regime of Porfirio Lobo, the destruction of the Teachers´Statute (the law that governs wages and working conditions for education workers), and the off-loading of responsibility for public education to municipal authorities.
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