6 Monday, March 21, 2016 The San Juan Daily <strong>Star</strong> Former Senate President Hernández Agosto Dies at 88 By JOHN MCPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com The former president of the Puerto Rico Senate, Miguel Hernández Agosto, died Friday at the age of 88 at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan, current Senate President Eduardo Bhatia said. “With much pain and sadness I receive the news of the death today of don Miguel Hernández Agosto. The Senate and the country are in mourning,” wrote Bhatia on his Twitter page. Hernández Agosto had been hospitalized at the beginning of January at the Río Piedras Medical Center after suffering a fainting spell. In August 2015, the former politician had been hospitalized and operated on for a brain clot which formed after he fell at his home. Serving as Senate president from 1981 to 1992, the former director of the Popular Democratic Party left politics in 1996 after 26 years in the Legislature. His widow, María Casanova, said Hernández Agosto died at 4:15 in the morning, after being hospitalized for dehydration. “I saw that he did not respond, the doctor checked him, noticed a noise in his lungs and said that we had to take him to the hospital,” she said. “[His condition] was very bad, very serious, he lost consciousness. He had no movement.” Casanova said Hernández Agosto died “after fighting all his life like a warrior, like a champion.” “We had years of entering and leaving the hospital,” she told Notiuno. “He was a great person, a great husband.” His remains will be transferred to the Los Angeles Memorial funeral home and possibly will lie in state in the Capitol. Miguel Hernández Agosto Striking Students Picket Treasury, Call for Unified Front Across UPR System By JOHN MCPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com The University of Puerto Rico student body began the third day of an intercampus strike Friday under the slogan “11 campuses, one UPR,” forming a picket line in front of the island Treasury Department at 6:30 a.m. At around 6 a.m., Cybernews reported that the students were gathered in front of the main gate at the UPR Río Piedras campus to march in a caravan toward the Treasury to begin the demonstration. The UPR student community is demanding that the commonwealth government take action to address the A. ZEPEDA REALTY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES MANAGEMENT INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTY Please Contact Atilio Zepeda Lic. #2095 • 787-616-1038 atiliozepedarealty@gmail.com economic crisis and the crisis of governance at the institution. In various student general assemblies last week a stoppage of 48 to 72 hours on seven campuses was agreed to. The campuses that joined Río Piedras were Humacao, Ponce, Utuado, Bayamón, Arecibo and Mayagüez. As student leader Coraly León told Cybernews, the principal demands are that Treasury make the payments due the UPR, that Law 66 be eliminated and that the government lock in the 9.6 percent formula that guarantees the public financing of the UPR. The students have also demanded the resignation of UPR President Uroyoán Walker. Though León said that Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza has communicated his willingness to meet with the students, she added that “we want a meaningful meeting.” “We know that they are approaching us for a meeting of a personal nature, but we are not interested in such a meeting,” León said. “We want a formal meeting with representation from the government and the UPR board of governors,” the student leader said. “We want that the space to be not only for dialogue, but we also want it to be a space where they can make decisions and commit themselves to complying with these agreements.” The students have scheduled various activities in the months of March and April, especially holding an extraordinary assembly to determine if there will be a strike or an indefinite stoppage if the government does not accede to their demands. “We will return from Holy Week with a new perspective and renewed force,” said Río Piedras student leader Flores Hernández, who said she expects more students from other campuses to unite with the seven campus on stoppage. “Aguadilla did not join in the protest or the stoppage, but they did make statements in favor of demonstrations that can be developed going forward,” said Iván Vallés of the Mayaguez campus. The student leaders emphasized that, up to now, they have not communicated with President Walker, though they have been in contact with various members of the board of governors.
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