The 187 plaintiffs mobilized in the Basilica of Caacupé (54 kilometers east of this capital) persisted in their disagreement about their unemployment situation, expressed since October 16 before the authorities of the plant, and will now present it to the President. told ABC Color newspaper.
“We want our fight to have a positive impact on the President and that is why we ask that he listens to us, that he calls us to dialogue and that we can review this situation on a case-by-case basis, because great injustice is being committed here. “, explained Luis Riveros, one of the employees laid off at Itaipu.
According to the spokesman, the participants of the mobilization, dismissed by the director of the national part of Itaipú, Justo Zacarías, for alleged irregularities in the reception of jobs, went to Caacupé to ask for the Virgin’s blessing to address the situation concerned solve their families.
The demonstrators, who began the mobilizations in Ciudad del Este, on the border with Brazil, will leave the sanctuary of the central-western Cordillera department towards Asunción, where the demonstration for the return to their jobs will continue, Riveros assured.
“To date,” the spokesman recalled, “we have not received any communication or intention of dialogue.” “They do not even explain what the irregularities are.”
The plaintiffs denounced the acceptance of positions at the hydroelectric power plant by relatives of politicians without any selection process for their admission, contrary to statements by the managers about “the use of transparent processes to hire competent people.”
The demonstrations began on October 16 with temporary closures of traffic on the busy PY07 route, with demonstrators throwing copies of their respective certificates and employment documents as another form of protest.
The Itaipú hydroelectric power station (from Guaraní “sounding stone”) is located on the adjacent Paraná River, between the cities of Hernandarias (Paraguay) and Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil).
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