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| | CNN.com - Tens of thousands protest IMF debt-payment pact - Oct. 15, 2003 |
 | | The protests were launched by the left-leaning Political Block and Democratic Unification Party, and supported by 30,000 elementary and high school teachers, doctors, nurses and blue-collar workers who staged a one-day work stoppage. |
 | | Groups across Latin America, including the Political Block and Democratic Unification Party, long have argued that countries pay too high a price to meet IMF conditions, which call for governments to slim down their operations, including cutting back on social programs, in exchange for debt relief. |
 | | The protests came a day after representatives of the IMF arrived in the capital to see whether Honduras qualifies as a "highly indebted poor nation," which could result in the organization forgiving $960 million of its $4.4 billion in foreign debt. |
| www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/10/14/honduras.protests.ap/index.html (271 words) |
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