In the last hours, a strong controversy was generated by a concentration that was held in Florida, in rejection of the education reform, in which the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, a large part of his cabinet, and legislators were present. , within the framework of the act of the Declaration of Independence.
At one point, the protesters sang a chant that caught the president’s attention and was captured by television cameras. “These are teachers, aren’t they?” he asked the one closest to him. “They’re calling me son of a bitch” he said; then he smiled, waved, and continued on his way.
However, the protesters, with banners and drums, intoned: “The Fund gave you, Cuquito button. You sell yourself to the Yankees, you hand over the country. You are a son of yuta, you have to go”, as can be heard in the videos that circulated on social networks.
According to the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy “yuta” means in vulgar language in Argentina: “police”.
spooky reformation
The National Federation of Secondary Education Teachers (FENAPES) expressed on its Twitter account that in the last hours, some voices defined their campaign called: “Transformation of terror”, as violent. But, the union assured that “this is part of the largest cut in history and a shocking reform”.
Against economic policy
For her part, the secretary of FUM-TEP, Elbia Pereira, assured that her union organization did not carry out any demonstration regarding the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou. “We are against the economic policy carried out by the government, it is not against the people.”
“Capable of someone presenting themselves as an educator. Educators is very broad. The Uruguayan Federation of Teachers did not intimidate, did not convene any demonstration of public escrache to any legislator, any educational actor, in this case, or institutional of the Republic. We handle ourselves in a different way”, Pereira sentenced in statements to Underlined.
