Unions, Native People Fight Mining “Reforms” and Police Repression in Argentina
For weeks now, the people of Jujuy, Argentina, have been in the streets resisting right-wing political attacks on wages and the right to protest. In the past few days the conflict has escalated with severe police repression throughout the largely Indigenous and impoverished province. Reports from on the ground show repression including massive deployments of riot police, people being chased in the...