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• Uruguay educational reform

High school students in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, mobilized this Wednesday in rejection of the educational reform of the Government of Luis Lacalle Pou and demanding the rights of this educational sector.

Montevideo.- In a 24-hour strike these groups convened in the southern city, demanded a larger and decent education budget, and also denounced the cuts in the sector promoted by the Executive. Popular education and quality teaching are basic requirements defended by the students who have not ceased to demand respect for education as a basic right.

According to local media, the country's education budget was reduced by one percentage point of GDP in 2021, the largest cut since the so-called democratic recovery. The education reform to be implemented includes the elimination of diversified high schools, among other elements.

With this measure, the last two years of high school are modified and a common core is created with orientations that students must subsequently choose according to the career they wish to study.

On August 18, the correspondent of the international channel teleSUR reported that the students and workers also rejected the budget cut plans of the Uruguayan government, which in the last 18 months cut 5,000,000 dollars from the school feeding programs.

Similarly, public health workers went on strike demanding better salaries and working conditions. Likewise, the Federation of Public Health Officials from its Twitter account indicated that "it is mobilizing for more and better public health; for salary, working conditions and for our rights to be heard. For a budget that takes into account the needs of workers and users," said the group. (RHC)

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• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Halting new investments in fossil fuels is “wrongheaded” despite global commitments to transition to greener energy, the head of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said on Tuesday, as he warned that oil demand will continue to accelerate in the coming years as economies bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Guayaquil prison gang riot

At least 24 prisoners have been killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Guayaquil, according to Ecuador’s national bureau of prisons (SNAI), which added that at least 42 others were wounded in the deadly riot.

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• 76th UNGA Sessions
• nuclear weapons

At the United Nations, several Latin American countries renewed on Tuesday their call for the total prohibition of nuclear weapons, 75 years after the General Assembly of that organization pronounced itself on the matter for the first time.