Third Article: Carles beaten by indians!
Carles was beaten after indigenous protest
Q. Flor Bocharel / Yaritza Mojica
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Luis Ernesto Carles, Vice Minister of Labor, tried to talk to the Indians who reject the reforms of the mining code.
5:38 pm - San Felix, Chiriquí. "Although the Deputy Minister of Labor and Workforce Development, Luis Ernesto Carlo, pledged to bring a letter to President Ricardo Martinelli to repeal the Act to amend the Code of Mineral Resources, a mob of Indians and student groups as seized, beaten and stripped of his shirt.
This was not allowed to leave the area of intersection of San Felix, came with no security and accompanied by an alternate member, Armando Guerra, who now took shelter in a nearby building, while Carlos went toward the village of Las Lajas, a neutral to the protesters.
Demonstrators are held in more than five points of the Pan American Highway. The place has not been submitted riot police.
