Labor protest in northwestern Argentina violently quashed by Macri ally.
Police and military forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas against workers in Jujuy Province, Argentina, yesterday, leaving at least 80 people injured as a result of the violence. The workers were protesting low pay at the Ledesma Group, which owns the largest sugar mill plant in the country.
The clashes took place at midday, when the provincial police riot squad started to fire at over 250 workers as they attempted to enter the Ledesma gas plant in the city of Libertador General San Martín. Over 200 police and Border Guard officers had been reportedly sent to the site by Governor Gerardo Morales, a close ally of right-wing President Mauricio Macri.
The protesters, most of whom belonged to the SOEAIL union of Ledesma employees, denounced that they had been attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets while the police prevented ambulances from entering the area to assist the injured. numerous protesters were detained - among them journalist Raúl Noro, whose wife, indigenous activist Milagro Sala, was imprisoned without charges in January and remains in jail despite the prosecution's self-admitted lack of evidence. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and Amnesty International have called for Sala's immediate release.
The protest had begun last Wednesday, when the union voted in favor of holding a demonstration after the sugar mill company had refused to raise their salaries by 43% to counter the effects of inflation. Inflation in Argentina has doubled to 47% after Macri decreed a sharp devaluation of the peso and made deep cuts to utility and transport subsidies.
The CTA labor federation, to which SOEAIL belongs, denounced the attack in a press conference held jointly with CGT leader Hugo Moyano. The union leaders recalled that the Blaquier family was directly responsible for the “Night of the Blackouts,” a secret police and military operation carried out in the early days of the last military dictatorship on July 27, 1976, during which around 400 disappeared.
The Balquier family are staunch supporters of the Macri regime, which rewarded large contributions to its 2015 campaign by naming Luis Blaquier as director of the social security trust fund. Carlos Blaquier, the family patriarch, was charged in 2012 with complicity in the Blackouts case; but the case is still pending. The Blaquiers, like the Macris, were named in the massive Panama Papers leak in April.
At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/218082/force-used-against-workers%E2%80%99-protest-in-jujuy
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Macri's has a bad habit of sending thugs to Jujuy on Morales' behalf, and it seldom turns out well. http://www.democraticunderground.com/110846173
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needed in order to hold her in prison, he also has her husbandRaúl Noro.
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Milagro Sala, and Raúl Noro.
Have seen this fiend before: Governor Gerardo Morales with Macri.
OMG, what a worm, Carlos Blaquier. Charged with involvement in
the "Night of the Blackouts," as you mentioned, when 400
souls were snatched into the void. Grotesque, hideous ghouls.
Also noted in the Panama Papers, like Macri! [/center]
Sorry it sounds like an echo chamber reading this post as I quoted your remarks throughout, but it all astounds me. So many villains in one place at one time. Might as well be the Third Reich. They were probably inspired and influenced by many of the old Nazis who went there to escape prosecution after the war.
Found a very brief reference to Carlos Blaquier in this article. The way the "Night of the Blackout" happened tells me that the officials, the owner of Ledesma, and the officials at the electric company worked together on this one:
Ledesma: Also working its way through the legal system is a case involving president of sugar company
Ledesma, one of Argentina’s most powerful businesses, for his involvement in kidnappings during the ‘blackout night’, when over 400 people were kidnapped in the province of Jujuy following an electricity outage on 20th July, 1976.
President of Ledesma Carlos Blaquier and former general manager Alberto Lemos are accused of providing the vehicles that were used for transporting the victims. This month, the Federal Court of Salta confirmed that there is sufficient evidence that the company Ledesma collaborated in the kidnapping of their workers to dismantle the labour union. As a result, Blaquier and Lemos will be put on trial, which is set to begin in April 2014. The court upheld that Blaquier will be prosecuted as a “necessary participant” in twenty cases of illegal deprivation of liberty and Lemos is accused of being a “secondary participant” to the kidnappings.
More:
http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/analysis/beyond-the-military-investigating-the-civilian-role-in-the-dictatorship/
