The plaintiffs only open the roads for food transportation in cities like Purmamarca and La Quiaca. The latter are awaiting a hunger strike announced for the next few hours by the indigenous communities affected by parts of the amendment that limit the right to their land. published the newspaper Página/12.
The social organization Somos Barrios de Pie announced fasting for tomorrow Tuesday to urge the authorities to lift the reform while its affiliates and those of other sectors protect eight active cuts, including those of National Routes 66 and 9, the latter towards the northern border with Bolivia .
Lockdown and open cycles for essential operations in these protest and resistance scenarios vary from three hours to 30 minutes, the newspaper commented, while its participants use breaks in gatherings to redefine their strategies.
Lithium miners in the southwestern Salar de Olaroz, 270 kilometers from Jujuy, blocked access to two transnational companies, while other groups maintained traffic restrictions near the Cauchari solar farm, a large-capacity photovoltaic plant in the province.
The pickets coincided with their action with the visit to the region of Jujuy governor and chief architect of the reform, Gerardo Morales, who contacted Chinese investors in the neighboring Exxar and Sales de Jujuy lithium extraction plants, about two thousand kilometers from that capital.
Groups of malcontents chanted, “You never listen to us, Morales”; “You always say no”; “It’s over Morales, you’ll never change”, through songs accompanied by Andean Huayno rhythms of the Banda Grosa, the musical emblem of the aforementioned indigenous organization Somos Barrios de Pie.
The rejection of the governor’s visit followed his presentation last Friday as a pre-candidate for the post of vice-president under the formula that Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, representative of the opposition coalition Juntos Por el Cambio, presented as a presidential candidate ahead of the elections on Sunday 22 October had led .
Despite the overnight temperatures dropping below zero, protesters maintained the roadblock to Purmamarca on Route 9, near the international bridge between Argentina and Bolivia, for 12 days.
Witnesses in the area describe that the mobilized are protected by mounds built by hand from stones, branches of bushes with thorns and on tracks, which include the railway, whose irregular layout makes it impossible to avoid them.
The protests, which began on June 5 for better salaries for educators and are now massive, also condemn the excessive repression by local authorities, particularly those of June 17 during the Purmamarca blockade and those of June 20, as local legislators they swore to constitutional reform.
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