Health Workers Occupy French Embassy in Bogota
From Reuters
BOGOTA, Colombia —
About 40 provincial health workers peacefully occupied the French Embassy in Bogota on Wednesday in an effort to force the Colombian government to solve a wage and labor dispute, police said.
The protesters said they asked for the reinstatement of 80 government health employees recently fired, payments of five months of salary still due and an overhaul of hospital facilities.
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