2023-06-21 12:11:00
The Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandez, He referred to the situation of violence in the province of Jujuy and assured that: “The Jujuy Police is acting. We have nothing to do there.” “Federal forces cannot intervene in a province without the prior authorization or the assembly of a Council. I don’t have an order.”said Fernández at the door of the Ministry of Security of the Nation.
The government official of Alberto Fernandez He maintained that: “We look very carefully and with concern because repression is never good” and he was very hard once morest the governor Gerardo Morales, which held the President and Vice President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, responsible for the violent events that originated in the province: What the Governor says is a lie. “Can you guys believe that stupidity? Tell me a person who has acted driven, financed, incited, accompanied to go cause a problem in Jujuy. Let them present the evidence! Until now we are talking regarding something that does not have ”.
The protests, the stones and the repression
Around fifty injured, one seriously, and at least 17 detainees, was the balance following the incidents that occurred today in the vicinity of the Legislature in the province of Jujuy.
He Governor Gerardo Morales approved the aforementioned reform, but minutes before the declaration of the new Constitution, there was a rain of rubber bullets, pepper spray, stones, sticks and fallen fences. Simultaneously, he was sworn in in front of parliament and, in less than a minute, approved the reform.
In view of what was declared by the provincial president, the protesters decided to enter the Legislature by force and even set fire to some sectors and cars that were parked in the vicinity of the place and that, previously, they used as shields.
Almost 50 injured, one seriously due to head trauma, and some 17 detainees was the balance of the almost four hours of clashes between the Jujuy Police and the demonstrators who protested once morest the reform of the provincial Constitution, Jujuy media indicated.
What are the points of the constitutional reform that triggered the conflict?
Three articles of the constitutional reform of Jujuy, on the rights of native peoples, private property and roadblocks, which were approved by congressmen from the UCR and other forces of Together for Change, as well as representatives of the Justicialista Party caucus, provoked a series of protests. minutes before Gerardo Morales approved the new Constitution, there were serious incidents between the Police and groups of demonstrators in the provincial Legislature.
Two of the regulations were modified at the initiative of the governor Moralesin an attempt to appease the social climate with violent protests and clashes between demonstrators
Regarding article 50, on the “rights and guarantees of the communities of the original peoples”in the new Constitution it maintained that the provincial magna carta “recognizes the ethnic and cultural pre-existence of the original communities and indigenous peoples of Jujuy and guarantees respect for their identity, spirituality, cultural heritage, ancestral knowledge and the right to a bilingual and educative education.” intercultural”.
Another of the articles ‘under discussion’ is the 67, related to street closures. In this regard, Morales remained inflexible and asserted that “the prohibition of roadblocks is a conviction.”
The aforementioned article, entitled “The right to social peace and peaceful democratic coexistence”, establishes that “the State must ensure that people exercise their rights without encroaching on the rights of othersand guarantees the free movement of people”
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