Dozens of people were injured, one seriously, on Tuesday in clashes between protesters and law enforcement in Huhui, China. Argentinian (northwest), amid mass mobilizations against the revision of the province’s Constitution, according to media.
For about four hours, hundreds of protesters threw stones at law enforcement in the provincial capital of San Salvador de Jujuy (1,500km from Buenos Aires), and authorities said they also set cars on fire. Police responded with extensive use of tear gas and rubber bullets, according to footage broadcast by television networks.
Local media reports dozens of injured protesters and members of law enforcement. The director of Huhui’s emergency services (SAME) told TN television yesterday evening that “50 to 70” people had been treated, most of them with minor injuries from stones or plastic bullets, but added that one “he is in a very serious condition, with a head injury.”
Television footage shows a protester lying on the ground, a pool of blood around his head.
A source close to the Ministry of Public Security in Huhui province also told AFP about at least 20 arrests, according to the Athens News Agency.
The incidents broke out after two weeks of demonstrations and road blockades by various social groups – public officials, teachers, members of indigenous tribes… – rebelling against the revision of the Constitution of Huhui province, where Gerardo Morales (right, opponent of the center-left federal government) rules ), potential candidate in the October presidential election.
The new provincial Constitution – Argentina is a federal state – has been complained about mainly by representatives of indigenous communities, who see it as encroaching on their rights, especially regarding their ancestral lands and the natural resources therein, as the rural and touristic province also has rich lithium deposits .
Mr Morales announced on Monday that two articles were being withdrawn to be renegotiated, saying he understood the “doubts” of indigenous communities, but the new text was voted on Tuesday by the provincial parliament, albeit theoretically incomplete, amid the mobilization and incidents. outside the building.
Another controversial provision of the new text limits the forms of social protests, prohibiting in particular road blockades and the occupation of public buildings.
Road blockades continued yesterday in other locations in Huhui, according to a source close to the province’s security forces.
The governor of Huhui and the federal government blamed each other for the riots. Mr. Morales denounced politicization by the “radical left” and the “Kirschnerism” that he says is in power in Buenos Aires. He emphasized via Twitter that he holds “the president (Alberto Fernandez) and the vice president (Christina Kirchner) responsible for the extreme violence that Huhui is experiencing.”
Alberto Fernandez, for his part, yesterday demanded that “the repression immediately stop” in Huhui, judging that Mr. Morales bears “full responsibility” for the situation and complaining that the fundamental law of the province “contradicts” the national Constitution.
In a statement published yesterday Tuesday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said that it “is monitoring with concern the actions (…) to disperse the protests in the province of Jujuy in Argentina”.
The ICRC called for “the right to freedom of expression, the inter-American rules on the use of force, and an effective, inclusive and intercultural dialogue process, in which the rights of trade unions and indigenous peoples are respected”.
Source: News Beast
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