Hubieres ends hunger strike

[NewsWhore]

Bus owners leader Juan Hubieres has ended his three day hunger strike. And is quoted in the Diario Libre as saying, "I want to keep living," as his justification for ending his strike. Enriquillo Matos, of the Colegio Medico Dominicano (CMD), explained to Hubieres the risks if he continued the hunger strike given his heart condition and low blood pressure. In a related news story, the wives of the bus owner activists held a rally yesterday at the doors of the Presidential Palace supporting the demands that their husbands are making of the government. Diario Libre writes that because of the fear that they would be mistreated the group retreated without speaking to any government officials or voicing their demands.

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