Guerrero • Business people, professionals and housewives demanded that the state and Federal governments and members of the dissident teachers show willingness to dialogue to resolve the conflict, in such a way that neither bitterness nor polarization might prevail.
On Tuesday morning, members of the civil association Citizen Vanguard reported that the 63 days [teacher work stoppage] of conflict in the education sector have been very wearing for the society of Guerrero, but particularly for the inhabitants of Chilpancingo, the city where they have focused the demonstrations.
Speaking along this line were Pioquinto Damián Huato, former president of the National Chamber of Commerce in Chilpancingo, Karen Areli Ortega Salgado, youth coordinator of the group Avance [Going Forward]; Leticia Maganda Sánchez, president of the Canaco [national business group] in Chilpancingo; Lorenzo Leonardo Arroyo, head of the Association of Restaurants, Bars and Clubs in the Central region of Guerrero.
Speaking along this line were Pioquinto Damián Huato, former president of the National Chamber of Commerce in Chilpancingo, Karen Areli Ortega Salgado, youth coordinator of the group Avance [Going Forward]; Leticia Maganda Sánchez, president of the Canaco [national business group] in Chilpancingo; Lorenzo Leonardo Arroyo, head of the Association of Restaurants, Bars and Clubs in the Central region of Guerrero.
A Tense Situation
Pioquinto Damián Huato, former Canaco leader and former federal deputy, recalled a popular maxim that says: Under threat there is no agreement; without agreement, there is no peace.
"It has been 63 days since the teachers' movement began, an educational conflict has become a teachers' movement. Right now we do not see a path that gives solution to the demands of the education workers."He regretted that not even the local Congress has been able to come up with a solution, which has now become an open and worsening conflict.
"The positions of the parties are absolutely opposed: one side, unfortunately, channels their frustration by disturbing the public order; while the other, namely, the government, has shown a great capacity for deepening the hatred, while simultaneously demonstrating a great inefficiency for finding answers."Under these circumstances, he indicated that Citizen Vanguard expresses its solidarity with the teachers' movement, because any reform to be passed must be approved by the citizenry, which is not the case here.
"We cannot continue agreeing to reforms that are prejudiced against the citizenry; additionally, in Guerrero we have an administration that is not up to either what is happening or to what is experienced in the state."He regretted that in his annual report [delivered on Monday], Gov. Ángel Aguirre has not proposed a solution to the conflict, which is causing concern for the business sector in the capital of Guerrero, where sales have fallen off significantly.
"This affects us because there are no sales. Sales have dropped up to eighty-percent in the stationery stores, and a similar situation is occurring in other industries," he pointed out.
Regarding the announcement that the law will be enforced, he said that what is truly important is to handle openly how the problem will be resolved, because it is not to be treated as a matter that can be settled as if it were a lawsuit. Spanish original