(CNN Spanish) -
This Tuesday afternoon, retired military officers stormed the Guatemalan Congress after protesting outside, forcing several deputies, Congress personnel and at least one minister, to take refuge inside the halls.
Karina Paz, a deputy for the National Unit of Hope, confirmed to CNN that she is locked in the office of the presidency of Congress with a minister and several people who work there.
According to Paz, the retired soldiers have burned some cars in the parking lot.
The former military began a protest earlier where they demanded that Congress approve compensation for the work they did during the internal armed conflict in the 1980s.
The demands of the retired military
Several organizations of Guatemalan military veterans blocked several highways in the country on October 13 to demand that the country's Congress pass a law that would give them an indemnity for their military service, local media reported.
The protest of the retired military on October 13 in Cuilapa.
(Credit: JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP via Getty Images)
The so-called Law 5664 or the initiative of the Economic Compensation Law for the Provision of Military Service during the Internal Armed Confrontation, would grant 120,000 quetzals (about US $ 15,508.66) per person to the soldiers who rendered "compulsory or voluntary" military service. between 1960 and 1996.
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These people do not currently have a pension.
With information from Ana Cucalón, Marlon Sorto and Michelle Mendoza