Negotiators reach agreement to end 8-week strike at University of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico students to vote on ending strike

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Negotiators have reached an agreement to end a strike that has paralyzed the University of Puerto Rico for nearly two months.

Giovanni Roberto, a spokesman for the students’ negotiating committee, says an assembly will be held on Monday for students from the system’s 11 campuses to vote on whether to accept the agreement.

Students launched the strike to fight proposals for budget cuts, fee increases and other issues. For weeks, protesters have been locked in a standoff with police at the gates of the main campus in the San Juan suburb of Rio Piedras.

The agreement emerged Wednesday night following four days of negotiations. It calls for no fee increase in the next academic term and no summary punishments for the strikers.