POLICE

Jujuy communities face new criminal case and warn: "We are not afraid"

They denounce that the investigation is a "fully armed case, in which such an accusation cannot be proven" and warned that the fact only gives them "more strength" to continue fighting for their demands.

  • 06/10/2023 • 09:11

Members of indigenous communities, teachers and social activists repudiated this Thursday in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the capital of Jujuy the accusation of manslaughter of some 23 protesters, after the death last July of a tourist in the town of Abra Pampa, where a road block was being carried out. "We want to tell the entire society and especially Governor Gerardo Morales that we do not give up, we are not afraid of him and we are going to continue fighting for our cause against the reform of the Constitution of Jujuy," said Natalia Macha, member of the Third Malón de la Paz, in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office in the capital of Jujuy. Protesters gathered there and denounced "persecution" and "bullying" by the Morales government in Jujuy. A total of 23 people are being investigated for the death of Virginia Flores Gómez, which occurred on July 9 when she was traveling in a long-distance bus on Route 9 and was stranded in Abra Pampa, as a result of the cut that indigenous communities carried out in protest. against the constitutional reform. The woman, of Bolivian nationality, suffered a decompensation inside the vehicle, was treated by SAME and died on the way to the hospital in that town in Puna, where attempts were made to revive her. Due to the fact, the provincial government filed a criminal complaint against the community members who were carrying out protests on Route 9 near Abra Pampa, Purmamarca, Humahuaca, Uquía and Tilcara. "We have spontaneously presented ourselves to stand up because we are not criminals, we are teachers and indigenous communities who have taken to the streets at some point with the firm slogan for the modification to fall," of the Magna Carta, he told his shift Mercedes Maidana, original teacher. The community members agreed that the investigation is a "fully armed cause, in which such an accusation cannot be proven" and warned that the persecution they suffer gives them "more strength" to continue fighting for their demands.