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Venezuela students end hunger strike

27 March 2011 05:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. University protesters in Venezuela have ended a month-long hunger strike, saying President Hugo Chavez’s government has met their demands, APA reports referring news.yahoo.com website.
Student leader Diego Scharifker says the education minister has promised to increase budgets for university scholarships, cafeterias, transportation and other services. He says officials also also promise to discuss pay increases for the sector.
Dozens of students, professors and staff have participated in the hunger strike that began on Feb. 23 in Caracas. In recent days, four students partially sewed their mouths closed to dramatize the strike that ended Saturday.
University officials had warned that some schools were in danger of sharp cutbacks due to a lack of resources.