2023-06-21 13:07:30
more than 170 woundedone seriously due to head trauma, and some 50 detainees was the balance until midnight this Tuesday after the police repression that spread in Jujuy for more than four hours on demonstrators who were protesting against the reform of the provincial Constitution, approved and sworn in by the local Legislature.
The police advance began shortly after 11 o’clock against a new and massive march that brought together multiple sectors of society in the capital of Jujuy. against the reform at the doors of the Legislature, while inside it the new Magna Carta was approved and sworn in local.
Jujuy police infantry troops clashed with protesters, hurling rubber bullets and tear gasresponding to the throwing of stones, in a climate of tension in the streets of the Jujuy capital that was maintained until this afternoon by various arteries.
During incidents, the police threw tear gas canisters, stones from slingshots and rubber bulletswhich caused a large number of injured members of different sectors.
From the Ministry of Health of Jujuy they provided a detailed detail of the assistance provided in public hospitals and by the Same on public roads. Total, 96 people were treated in hospitals and 72 patients received care on public roadsamong which are 22 police officersspecified the outlet Todo Jujuy.
It should be noted that at the Pablo Soria Hospital, currently 5 people remain hospitalized and 3 under observation. The care is linked to mild eye trauma, fractures, head trauma, sharp wounds and those from rubber bullets and polycontusion.
In turn, Héctor Herbas Mejías, police chief of the province, confirmed to the same outlet that on Tuesday, in the context of the conflict in Jujuy, 50 were detained and they are in the Alto Comedero prison.
Likewise, members of the Special Motorized Group joined the repression, while the confrontations intensified, but this time in streets further away from the provincial Legislature.
⚡ #NOW | The situation in Jujuy, in northern Argentina, is worsening with protests, repression and riots. They denounce arrests of protesters and health professionals in the province. Governor Morales would speak in a few hours. pic.twitter.com/Ilh3Cf9qEH
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June 20, 2023
He Jujuy airport was inoperable – it resumed its activities this Wednesday- due to the roadblocks of the demonstrators who oppose the provincial constitutional reform and repudiate the repression of the protests and the consequent impossibility of workers and passengers to reach the air station.
Sources linked to the aeronautical sector said that “the flights were canceled“, among them some from Aerolíneas Argentinas and another from Flybondi.
The airlines flight, the sources added, which arrived at Jujuy at 4:30 p.m., was diverted to the Salta airport.
In addition, they said that due to the inconvenience to get there, there was a lack of essential employees for the operation of the air station, such as control tower personnel.
��️ “I felt it was like in the videos I saw of the dictatorship”: Cristian Oviedo, the tourist detained by the police in Jujuy yesterday, spoke to the press. pic.twitter.com/Ncjb3gprWh
– IP news (@_IPNoticias)
June 20, 2023
On the other hand, provincial human rights organizations denounced the arrest of several members of the HIJOS-Jujuy group, such as Eva Arroyo, Carolina Luna, Néstor Mendoza, and Ana Uro, who participated in the march.
From the HIJOS collective they warned that both Arroyo and Uro are witnesses with protection in cases for crimes against humanity that are being processed by the federal Justice in the province of Jujuy.
They are joined by Claudia Ayarde, Ana Arroyo, Cintia Díaz, Analía Vilca, Sara Pérez, Juan José Flores, Mayra Vilca, Carolina Luna, Enzo Cruz, Agustina Gasparovic, Elsa Ochoa, Noemí Torres, and Irma Ramos, including several detained teachers. .
Previously, some protesters entered the Legislature building and set fire to some of its facilities, after the conventional constituents voted and swore to the new text inside the building.
The local Police could not contain the protesters, some of whom entered the offices at the back of the provincial Legislature after advancing against the containment fences located in nearby streets of the compound.
Natalia Morales, provincial deputy for the FIT, said that in the protests against the reform in #jujuy: “There are many infiltrated policemen” he also added that “Police and infantry fired with rubber bullets and gases.”
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— Public Television (@TV_Publica)
June 20, 2023
At that same moment, the pro-government conventionalists together with those of the Justicialist Front behind closed doors declared the partial reform of the Constitution approved and sworn, which will remain in force after its publication.
“Having sworn the new Constitution of the province of Jujuy, the conventional gentlemen and ladies and presidents of the three powers of the State and having approved the new Constitution of the province, it enters into force from its publication. With this we consider Once the task of the constituent convention is finished, we consider the new Constitution of Jujuy approved and sworn,” said Morales.
In the ordinary session, the conventional constituents that respond to Morales approved the reverse of two articles related to the original peoples, as the governor had promised yesterday, but the prohibition on blocking streets and routes was maintained.
The incidents occurred while teachers, indigenous peoples, state workers, social and union organizations advanced through the streets of San Salvador de Jujuy with a “banderazo”, carrying Argentine flags.
The protests in the province are replicated with roadblocks in the towns of La Quiaca, Abra Pampa, Humahuaca, Tilcara, Libertador San Martín, Suques, Caimancito, San Pedro, Fraile Pintado, and Purmarmarca, where last Saturday there was repression against indigenous commoners.
The social organizations repudiated the statements of the provincial president, who expressed that the claim in the province of Jujuy is part of a “partisan political maneuver”, by targeting again against the social leader Milagro Sala and other sectors.
“The claim is deeply political, yes. The people of Jujuy have expressed in recent weeks their questioning of a policy of impoverishment and job insecurity, but we are not puppets,” said Mercedes Sosa, general secretary of the Center for Secondary and Higher Education (Cedems), at a press conference held by the Intergremial collective. ).
Source: Telám
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