Another 33 Chileans are buried deep under the ground. This time 33 women are staging a hunger strike inside Lota mine where they used to work. They started a hunger strike Wednesday morning demanding the government reinstate their jobs.
At ‘El Chiflon Del Diablo’ mine in southern Chile the women have sequestered themselves deep beneath the earth consuming only fluids until the government assures them their jobs, reported Hispanically Speaking News.
Since the earthquake devastated the country in February, the Chilean government initiated a temporary emergency jobs program. The jobs, like clearing debris and constructing emergency housing are aimed at rebuilding the country and boost its economy.
Over 12,000 people lost these jobs in September when the program was not extended, adding to the stress for some people who also lost everything in the earthquake. Since then distraught Chileans have tried several actions and “tried at all levels and cannot make the government understand that all we need is a source of work,” Ivania Anabalón told the Santiago Times. “The governor wouldn’t even look at us,” she added.
In an open letter sent to the government, the women refer to the recent great effort rescuing 33 miners in the north of the country. They ask “the government and Parliament officials to, with the same drive, use the country’s economic resources to keep these jobs.”
At ‘El Chiflon Del Diablo’ mine in southern Chile the women have sequestered themselves deep beneath the earth consuming only fluids until the government assures them their jobs, reported Hispanically Speaking News.
Since the earthquake devastated the country in February, the Chilean government initiated a temporary emergency jobs program. The jobs, like clearing debris and constructing emergency housing are aimed at rebuilding the country and boost its economy.
Over 12,000 people lost these jobs in September when the program was not extended, adding to the stress for some people who also lost everything in the earthquake. Since then distraught Chileans have tried several actions and “tried at all levels and cannot make the government understand that all we need is a source of work,” Ivania Anabalón told the Santiago Times. “The governor wouldn’t even look at us,” she added.
In an open letter sent to the government, the women refer to the recent great effort rescuing 33 miners in the north of the country. They ask “the government and Parliament officials to, with the same drive, use the country’s economic resources to keep these jobs.”
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