Peruvian congresswomen accuse Spanish airliner Iberia of discrimination

Posted on: November 28th, 2006
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“Sumire maintained that despite purchasing the tickets in advance, airline personnel made them wait unnecessarily while servicing other customers first. After the congresswomen started to complain about this disadvantage, an airline employee apparently answered something that roughly translates to “how can you be congresswomen if you don’t even know how to speak the language? Obviously you don’t speak Spanish very well, so complain all you want”.

Both congresswomen are indigenous Peruvians who prefer to speak in their native Quechua language, however, both are fully capable of conversing in perfect Spanish and in mastering the Peruvian form of Castellano.

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