In what is being called the “National Day of Struggle for the Liberation of Milagro Sala”, social organisation Tupac Amaru, cut off road access to the city of Buenos Aires and at other points across the country this morning, in protest of what they call the “irregular, illegal, and arbitrary” arrest and detention of Milagro Sala.
The Tupac Amaru organisation has organised multiple protests demanding Milagro Sala’s release (Photo: Camille Ayral)
An estimated 200 road blocks are being carried out by the group with the help of over 40 organisations, including CTA de los Trabajadores, La Cámpora, Federación Tierra y Vivienda-Miles, Movimiento Evita, and Movimiento Nacional Campesino, as confirmed in a statement yesterday from Tupac Amaru.
According to Alejandro Garfagnini, National Coordinator of Tupac Amaru, the cuts, which started at 10am, are scheduled to last until 6pm.
In Buenos Aires in particular, the blocks include the bridges Nicolás Avellaneda and La Noria, with demonstrations centred around Puente Pueyrredón, all of which connect the city with the province of Buenos Aires.
The roadblocks are the latest in a series of protests with the goal of liberating Sala, who was arrested and has been imprisoned since 16th January 2016.
In a recent interview with Radio Del Plata, Juan Manuel Esquivel, provincial deputy in Jujuy and coordinator of Tupac Amaru, spoke of the Sala’s detention and how it was “dangerous for the democratic system.”
“In Jujuy,” he said, “justice has a different outlook, almost a different constitution.”
Sala’s last post on Twitter, on 16th January 2016, spoke to the unconstitutionality of her arrest, saying “[a]t this moment, [Jujuy governor] Gerardo Morales’ police are detaining me, this is like in a dictatorship.”
Today’s actions come 30 days after Sala was arrested in Jujuy on charges of inciting criminal behaviour and disorder.
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