43 Argentine Gendarmes killed in bus crash were on a political mission ordered by Security Minister.

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The tragedy occurred early this morning when one of the three buses carrying a contingent of National Guard (Gendarmerie) troops from Santiago del Estero to Jujuy had a tire blowout on a bridge on National Route 34 and fell on the Seco River, 20 kilometers from the small Salta Province town of Rosario de la Frontera.

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich confirmed that the officers killed in the tragedy had been mobilized to Jujuy Province on her orders to suppress possible protests Governor Gerardo Morales (a Macri ally) feared for tomorrow as a result of what may be a highly unpopular austerity announcement.

The Governor of Salta, Juan Manuel Urtubey, confirmed the death toll of 43 (out of 51 passengers) and that only one of the wounded, transferred to a hospital in Tucumán, is in critical condition. "This is a disaster; it was inevitable. I would like to embrace the National Guard," said President Mauricio Macri, who was with the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, in the accident area.

This morning, President Macri conveyed his "sincere condolences to all the families" of the deceased after a political rally in the corn-belt city of Pergamino (Buenos Aires Province) in which he announced tax cuts for exporters.

The investigation is now being overseen by Rosario de la Frontera Chief Prosecutor Oscar López Ibarra, who worked at the scene along with volunteer firefighters and forensic investigators from the Provincial Police Corps. López ordered that the body of driver be transferred to the San Bernardo Hospital morgue, in the city of Salta, for an autopsy.

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At least they died for a "good cause."



Who you gonna call, Governor? More National Guard?

[Judi Lynn]

1. Announcement of new austerity measures! We do know how that can go....

There were riots in Caracas when Carlos Andrés Pérez moved to drop his economic bomb on the poor. So many murdered at his command by national military paid for by the taxes of the poor themselves. Mass graves, even.

Macri decided he would learn from history, get the jump on them by having the police already in place BEFORE he dropped his economic bomb. Dirty guy. He's going to be short several dozen police now.

Thank you, so much, for this information which we will NOT be hearing from our own corporate right-wing owned "news" media.

The truth always comes out, but it takes so much longer when the right wing tries to bury it too deep for anyone to know.

[bemildred]

2. I wondered what that was about.

That crash is so unfortunate you almost suspect it was not an accident.