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Title	Guatemala: Information regarding a 31 March 1995 demonstration at Guastatoya, involving students and FENESTAG
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Guatemala
Publication Date	1 November 1998
Citation / Document Symbol	GTM30493.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Guatemala: Information regarding a 31 March 1995 demonstration at Guastatoya, involving students and FENESTAG, 1 November 1998, GTM30493.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ab00c.html [accessed 27 May 2012]
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Guatemala: Information regarding a 31 March 1995 demonstration at Guastatoya, involving students and FENESTAG

No reports of a 31 March 1995 demonstration at Guastatoya, involving students and FENESTAG, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

Please note that no information on an organization named FENESTAG could be found. However, Europa World Yearbook 1998 lists a trade union named Federación Nacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores del Estado de Guatemala (FENASTEG) led by a secretary named Armando Sánchez. This trade union belongs to the Unidad de Acción Sindical y Popular (UASP), a broad coalition of leading labour and peasant organizations (1998, 1556). Additional information on FENASTEG can be found in GTM26981.F of 12 June 1997, GTM17159.E of 19 May 1994, GTM12080 of 26 October 1992 and GTM5280 of 1 May 1990.

Despite many attempts, the Research Directorate was unable to contact a representative of either the UASP or the FENASTEG for this Response to Information Request.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Reference

Europa World Yearbook 1998. 1998. London: Europa Publications.

Sources Consulted

Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights.1995. Brussels: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions: ICFTU.

Central America NewsPak [Austin, Tex.]. March-April 1995.

Central America Report [Toronto]. March-April 1995.

Centroamerica [Minneapolis].1995.

Cerigua [Guatemala City].1995.

Guatemala Human Rights Update [Washington, DC]. March-April 1995.

Latin America Regional Reports: Caribbean and Central America Report [London]. March-April 1995.

Latin America Weekly Report [London]. March-April 1995.

Electronic Sources: IRB Databases, Global News Bank, Internet, REFWORLD, World News Connection (WNC).

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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