Today, July 3rd 2013, the Guatemalan Union, Indigenous and Peasant Movement –MSICG- started a training cycle aimed to strengthen the knowledge of its different levels of leadership on the situation of social exclusion in the country and the inefficiency of public policies to guarantee the solution of its main causes.

The goal of this cycle is to reaffirm the need of approaching unionism from a new perspective, so its positions can go beyond the limited scope of guild expectations, leading the social interlocution of unionism towards becoming a transformation tool for society, turning unions into positive, proposing actors with incidence, for the promotion of a true process of democracy and social justice building.

In this sense, and having clarity regarding the decisive role of fiscal policy to promote development, it has been important for MSICG to move forward in the understanding of its integral reaches, and that is why the subject that has been chosen to begin this process was FISCAL POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT FINANCING, which was developed by the companions of the CENTRAL AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF FISCAL STUDIES –ICEFI- who shared their specialized knowledge on this subject, clarified MSICG’s leaders’ doubts and made a priceless contribution to MSICG’s strategic approach.

MSICG deeply thanks the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies –ICEFI-, and especially companion Jonathan Menkos Zeissig, Executive Director of ICEFI and companions Candy Morales and Ricardo Barrientos for the support they provided for the organization and development of this activity, which was quite positively evaluated by MSICG’s different levels of leadership, which doubtlessly will strengthen the building process of the new union model promoted by our union Central, bringing clarity to its proposals and organizational approaches.

POLITICA COUNCIL
GUATEMALAN UNION, INDIGENOUS AND PEASANT MOVEMENT
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