POLICY

Members of the Third Malón de la Paz continue on hunger strike "chained" to Congress

They started the measure nine days ago. They ask that the reform of the provincial Constitution be declared null and void and that the district be intervened.

  • 03/10/2023 • 08:20

Members of the Third Malón de la Paz of Jujuy continued this afternoon on hunger strike and "chained" to the bars of the National Congress, waiting for a response from the deputies and senators to address the nullity of the reform of the Constitution of Jujuy and a request for federal intervention to the province, after the repression of the protests on June 16 in that district. "It's been nine days since we started the hunger strike chained to the National Congress. We are three members of the Third Malón de la Paz and we only drink water," Néstor Jerez, chief of the Ocloya people of Jujuy, told Télam, and stated that "the body is already takes its toll, you feel the weakness and dizziness" nine days after the hunger strike began. This afternoon the protesters received the support of various social organizations, including the La Dignidad Movement, the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) and the Barrios de Pie Movement, which concentrated on the intersection of Mayo and Callao avenues.