Hunting in Mendoza in a March Against Megamining

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The Mendocina Assembly for Water called the action a "serious violation of democratic freedoms and human rights" against citizens who exercised their constitutional right to protest.

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We strongly repudiate the brutal repression that the governor of Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo and his security minister, Mercedes Rus, launched against those who demonstrated in defense of water, against the megaminery by the hand of PSJ Cobre Mendocino and against the projects of Malargüe Distrito Occidental Minero. What was lived yesterday in the streets of the city of Mendoza, was not an operation, it was a hunt. Security forces brutally represse…

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At least 17 people arrested (9 of them still are) among whom there were two journalists who recorded the events. Cumshots, persecutions, detainees who were beaten by the police and referred to hospitals, and media operations to blame the citizens. “This project does not close if it is not with repression and violation of our democratic freedoms,” explained to lavaca one of the assembly members. There were questions about the project by the Catho…

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Writing Open Channel “To impose megamining the government of Mendoza hunting the people who manifest themselves. Once again they demonstrate the jobs it generates: repressive police to silence the people”, denounced this morning, from its social networks, the Popular Assembly for Water of Mendoza, one of the so many that yesterday afternoon it again mobilized massively in Mendoza in rejection of the San Jorge Project and the other three laws pa…