LatinNews Daily Report - 21 May 2012

POLITICS | Health sector ends strike. On 19 May the government of President Evo Morales signed an 11-point agreement with the Bolivian medical association to end a strike that has been going on for 53 days. The strike was triggered by a 24 January executive decree (DS-1126), which increased the working day for doctors and public health care workers from six to eight hours without additional pay. Under the 19 May agreement, the decree remains suspended but not repealed (as per the demands of the health sector). Among the various provisions, those doctors and health care workers fired over the strike will be reinstated; the government will cancel the lawsuits brought against protesters who caused disturbances in recent weeks and will not dock their salaries for days not worked, provided that they make up the time during their vacations. Another provision was that the doctors and health care workers could file a complaint before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR), an independent organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), against DS-1126 (which protesters complain violate human rights legislation).

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