Police harshly repress protests against criminal reform within the Argentine province of Jujuy

Indigenous communities and social agencies have blocked roads within the Argentine province of Jujuy to protest in opposition to the constitutional reform of the provincial government, which has responded harshly to the competition.

After the recent nearby elections, Governor Gustavo Morales has promoted a legal reform that boosts political strength and decreases the rights of residents, in keeping with the organizers of the mobilizations: social, political, union, human rights and native peoples corporations.

The most giant cry in the demonstrations in San Salvador de Jujuy, the provincial capital, has been “Down with the reform, up with wages!” reviews the Argentine information organisation Télam.

The Police have intervened in opposition to the demonstrators on account that Friday night time and Saturday morning at factors which includes the Route 9 junction, in which two participants of the groups were beaten and detained.

The demonstrations take location in towns which includes Purmamarca, where a set of activists has spent the night time on the motorway to defend the reduce despite the low temperatures. Finally, members of the security forces evicted the street and detained the unique activists Desiderio Olmos and Jesús David Flores.

The Constituent Convention of Jujuy authorized inside the early hours of Friday the partial reform of the provincial Constitution with the aid of the ruling party and the Justicialista Front. The regulations consist of the “prohibition of roadblocks” at some stage in protests, demonstrations that restriction loose movement or the career of public buildings. It additionally deprives the native groups in their lands, they denounce.

The Argentine federal government has already introduced that it'll ask for the unconstitutionality of two articles of the Constitution of Jujuy that sanction and restriction social protest.