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“Everything Has Gone Up”: Mercados Unidos Announces Protest Outside Congress on Tuesday

From La Hora · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Guatemala’s Mercados Unidos Association plans to demonstrate outside Congress on Tuesday, September 8.
  • The group is calling on lawmakers and President Bernardo Arévalo to respond to higher fuel and basic-goods prices affecting merchants and others.

“Everything has gone up,” the Mercados Unidos Association said as it announced a protest outside Guatemala’s Congress for Tuesday, September 8.

The association said it wants lawmakers and President Bernardo Arévalo to take measures against rising fuel prices and the higher cost of basic goods.

The price increases, it said, are affecting both merchants and other people. The demonstration will take place in front of the Congress of the Republic.

Everything has gone up

· Mercados Unidos AssociationThe phrase captures the association’s complaint about rising fuel and basic-goods prices.
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Originally published by La Hora in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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