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Thu 10 Oct 2008Minister fired as oil scandal threatens to engulf Peru president Garcia
LIMA:Thousands of protesters denounced Peruvian president Alan Garcia on Tuesday, a day after his energy minister quit in a widening scandal over steering oil concessions to favoured bidders.
Members of Peru's largest labour confederation, the CGTP, demanded President Garcia shake up his cabinet and change his free-market economic model, which critics say has caused growth to surge, but failed to lift people out of poverty quickly.
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