By Presa Latina News Agency, Feb. 22, 2015.
Several social organizations will demand today the immediate withdrawal of Uruguayan troops from Haiti, where they are part of the UN Stabilization Mission in that country (Minustah).
Representatives of the workers union PIT-CNT and of the University Students Federation, as well as of several human rights organizations, announced that they will take their protest to the presidential headquarters.
The protest was called by the Coordinator for the Pullout of Troops from Haiti, which plans to give a letter to President Jose Mujica containing "the entire Uruguayan social movement's demand."
The letter is signed by ex members of Parliament Guillermo Chifflet and Jose Dias, the PIT-CNT coordinator Marcelo Abdala and the representative of the Peace and Justice Service (Seaprj) Efrain Olivera.
The organizers said that on Monday they will be delivering more signatures of citizens that oppose maintaining Uruguayan troops in Haiti.
In a communique, they said Haiti is suffering a serious political crisis, where the political and social opposition is developing a mass resistance demanding the resignation of President Michel Martelly.