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	Thousands of Peruvians, many wearing white clothes and gloves to signify their hands are clean, marched on Tuesday to call for an end to public graft in one of the biggest protests of President Alejandro Toledo's unpopular rule. | Today President Alejandro Toledo is departing for the Northern Administrative Area’s to resolve the growing unrest against the Martial Law Decree of 1st Vice President Priego. President Toledo has vowed to put right the confused situation and return the province to civilian control. | Their names are instantly recognizable as some of Latin America's long-time ruling political parties. Yet these days, they control no presidential palaces, no legislatures. Across Latin America, voters are shunning traditional ruling parties that brought too little progress and too much corruption, and backing new factions that analyst's fear may only add to the region's instability. | In a town surrounded by desert and with only four hours of water a day, a Chinese-owned iron ore mine is the only source of employment, and workers there complain of health risks, low wages and frequent accidents, some of them fatal. "Shougang has turned us into slaves," said Carolina Collantes, an impoverished sweet seller whose husband works 15-hour shifts at the mine for $13 a day. "Marcona has become a source of cheap labor to feed the iron ore production." "Shougang is responsible for water and electricity in Marcona. The result is just four hours of water a day and regular blackouts," says Julissa Castaneda, a senior official at Marcona's town hall.

 

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