Luis Aldana wears an iron mask in his house in Bogota, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. The 52-year-old iron artisan sealed the mask and chained it to his hands fives days a go to begin a hunger strike, protesting the lack of work and asking the government for subsidized health care for his family.
(AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)
Luis Miguel Aldana, 52, told The Associated Press on Saturday that he adopted the peculiar form of protest five days ago, after being locked out of his apartment in Bogota. Instead of paying two months of rent, Aldana says he bought shoes for his three children.
Aldana currently is living in a neighbor's house, where he sits in bed with his hands and legs shackled in chains.
Despite soaring economic growth the past three years, Colombia's unemployment rate remained stubbornly high at 10.6 percent in August.
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