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July 27, 2023

Chilean Teachers Hold One-Day Nationwide Strike
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In Chile, teachers walked off the job Wednesday for a 24-hour nationwide
strike, demanding the government make good on promises to reimburse
teachers for a "historical debt" incurred when the former dictatorship
of Augusto Pinochet slashed their salaries and pensions. This is union
leader Paulina Cartagena Vidal, speaking from a march of teachers in
Chile's capital, Santiago.

Paulina Cartagena Vidal: "We are demanding, among other important
things, the payment of the historical debt, an urgent demand that does
not resist further delay. We are also demanding the prompt payment of
the retirement incentive bonus, a bonus due to the low pensions of
workers."



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