by the El Reportero’s news services
Barack Obama has made history – and cast his legacy – by becoming the first US President to make a decisive move to end the last Cold War anachronism in the Americas. On 17 December President Obama used his executive powers to decree a major change in US-Cuba policy, paving the way for the restoration of diplomatic relations after 53 years. “These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked,” Obama said. “It’s time for a new approach.”
Venezuelan president recalls death of Bolivar, 184 years ago
Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, remembered today the 184th anniversary of the death of Liberator Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), father of Independence who vowed for Latin American and Caribbean unity.
One hundred 84 years of his passing away, your lightning keeps on driving away darkness and awakening peoples to independence of nothing, he wrote in his Twitter account.
For executive vicepresident, Jorge Arreaza, now the libertarian notions of the hero are more alive in the conscience, heart and hopes of Venezuelans.
Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783 and with his struggle for independence from then Spanish metropolis, he founded the bases for union and sovereignty of the peoples of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia
Peruvians protest against new labor law for young Peruvians
LIMA – The main labor unions and youth and student organizations called for a concentration today in rejection of a youth employment law that affects the rights of these sectors.
At the same time, the government and political conservatives redoubled efforts to convince that the law, in force from today, seeks to promote youth employment and gives them a minimum of formality and protection against a total lack of rights they are facing.
The General Confederation of Workers, the Single Confederation of Workers and youth groups will reject, however, the law at a meeting to be held today in the central Plaza San Martin and argue that it violates universal standards of employment of the International Labor Organization.
The law, enacted by the government two days ago, states that the young Peruvians of 18-24 years can be hired for three years with the official minimum wage and rights cut, as just 15 days vacations, half of normal.
The leader of the General Confederation of Workers Olmedo Auris warned that entrepreneurs are the beneficiaries of the law and not the youth, as surely they will lay off workers over 24 years to recruit young people with fewer wages.
The First Lady and head of the Nationalist Party, Nadine Heredia, said the law opens the possibility of employ about 850,000 unemployed young Peruvians and noted that the youth unemployment rate is four times the overall rate.
The Prime Minister, Ana Jara, called on the opposition not to make electoral use of the issue and recalled that previous governments adopted similar rules. Prensa Latina.
