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[The following article by Jill Replogle is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the Feb. 26, 2003, edition of Latinamerica Press.]
While children's voices trickle out into the morning air from a private elementary school in Guatemala City, just a few blocks away, five-year-old Sergio Hernandez Jacinto restlessly zooms his toy car across the floor of the laundromat where his mother works. Sergio is just one of 1.2 million public school children on an unexpected extended vacation as a result of a national teachers' strike that has paralyzed the Guatemalan education system since the official start of the 2003 school year on Jan. 20.
Meanwhile, the more than 80,000 teachers employed in public education are on the streets in protest or locked in their schools in "permanent assembly." Moises Fuentes, leader of the national teachers association...
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