Work From Home: Greater than 70 injured in Spain protests

From Al Goodman, CNN

July 11, 2012 -- Up to date 1952 GMT (0352 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

43 protesters and 33 police are injured in clashes, Madrid ambulance carrier says
Spanish police use rubber bullets and batons to disperse protesters
Miners are protesting cuts to executive subsidies for the mining sector
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy proclaims gross sales tax building up and extra spending cuts

Madrid (CNN) -- Greater than 70 other people have been injured in clashes in Madrid on Wednesday as Spanish police used rubber bullets and batons to disperse anti-austerity protesters, witnesses and emergency staff said.

Protesters, together with a gaggle of miners who've marched at the capital, are demonstrating towards Spain's govt and the cuts it's enforcing because it seeks to shrink the country's debt crisis.

Hundreds of individuals briefly moved out of the world as police moved in, with witnesses reporting the usage of rubber bullets and batons by officers.

Madrid's ambulance provider stated SEVENTY SIX folks had been injured in clashes at or close to the Trade Ministry.

Miners have been some of the FORTY THREE protesters who had been injured, and 33 police additionally had been harm. Eight had been receiving medical institution treatment, however the accidents weren't serious, the ambulance provider said.

A collection of miners reached Madrid on Tuesday evening after playing what have been dubbed the "Black March," overlaying 450 kilometers (280 miles) over the process and a part weeks.

They had been joined by hundreds of different miners and supporters in a big protest Tuesday night time and any other demonstration Wednesday out of doors the Trade Ministry.

The miners are protesting a SIXTY FOUR% reduce within the executive subsidy to the mining sector this 12 months -- from 301 million euros to 111 million euros.

Unions say this endangers the roles of 8,000 miners and 22,000 auxiliary jobs that serve mining areas the place 200,000 folks are living and rely on mines.

The clashes got here as Top Minister Mariano Rajoy introduced a rise within the country's basic gross sales tax from 18% to 21%, in addition to spending discounts that come with slicing employment advantages after six months.

Announcing the measures -- that are sure to be unpopular with the general public -- to lawmakers, Rajoy mentioned they'd decrease the funds by SIXTY FIVE billion euros ($80 billion) over and a part years.

Meeting price range deficit aid objectives would require austerity and extra efficiency, he said, together with cuts to govt bureaucracy.

"We will considerably cut back the selection of public institutions," Rajoy vowed.

The Ecu Fee welcomed the move, announcing it was a very powerful" step" towards Spain assembly its deficit objective for the year, Spain's Efe information company said.

Spain's financial trouble has worsened in view that ultimate year.

The country slipped again into recession through the first quarter; the unemployment fee has risen to 24% overall, and greater than 50% for the ones below age 25; and the federal government has already enacted billions of bucks in austerity cuts, along side a few tax hikes, to cut back the funds deficit.

CNN's Claudia Rebaza contributed to this report.

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