Food riots shake Peru
NZPA-Reuter Lima President Francisco Morales Bermudez of Peru pledged in a nation-wide broadcast on Saturday that the military would hand over to an elected government. Speaking only hours after he clamped the country under a state of emergency because of food-price riots in which 12 people died, he also hinted general and Presidential elections could take place before their scheduled date in ISBO.
He made no direct refer-1 ence to a general strike! planned for next week, but) asked Peruvians to think! about the country’s econ-j omic crisis.
Observers took a reference to international financial bodies in his speech to mean the International Monetary Fund with which Peru has had fruitless negotiations over eight months for a stand-by credit.
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