Argentina will not allow street closures or blockades of companies as a form of protest

He Argentine government warned this Thursday that the security forces will not allow street and highway closures or blockades of companies from now on as a form of social or union protest.

“The streets are not taken. “We are going to organize the country so that people live in peace,” The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, stated at a press conference when presenting the new protocol for maintaining public order in the face of the closure of traffic routes.

Bullrich assured that there will be severe sanctions for those who carry out cuts, organize them, instigate them or are “partners in crime” of these.

The new protocol is presented in a delicate social and economic scenario in Argentina, where around Four. Five% of the population is poor and where the Executive of Javier Milei, leader of the far-right party La Libertad Avanza and who assumed the Presidency on December 10, has just launched harsh adjustment measures in a context of inflation of the 160.9% year-on-year.

Against this backdrop, social organizations have called for mobilizations for December 20, the anniversary of the violent protests of 2001, which occurred during an explosive economic crisis and ended with the resignation of the then president, the radical Fernando de la Rúa. (1999-2001).

“Without order there is no freedom. And without freedom, there is no progress.” stated Bullrich, who warned that “Whoever makes them, pays for them” and that only protests will be allowed “on the sidewalk (sidewalk).”

The minister explained that the four federal security forces and the Federal Penitentiary Service will intervene in the face of cuts, pickets or blockades, whether partial or total, regardless of whether the protesters leave alternative routes for traffic or not, and the troops will act until they completely leave free movement assured.

“To carry out these measures, the forces will use the minimum necessary and sufficient force and it will be graduated in proportion to the resistance”he claimed.

The organizers of protests with cuts will have to face the costs of security operations. It will not be allowed to go with your face covered or take children to the demonstrations, and the Justice will be notified in case of “environmental damage” if tires burn.

In addition, the portfolio will transfer information to the National Migration Directorate in the case of foreign protesters with provisional residence.