Argentina

April 29th, 2003 | by aobaoill |

There’s been quite a bit of coverage of Argentina recently. Not only the first round of the presidential election. Something that may have passed you by was a cluster of articles – from Naomi Klein amongst others about the Brukman factory.
This was a factory that was closed up and abandoned by its owners – the Brukman brothers – rather than pay workers in the midst of Argentina’s economic crisis in December 2001. Subsequently workers occupied the factory, fixing equipment and returning to production. An earlier article on ZNet by Pablo Waisberg gives some background. In the latest installment a judge ordered the eviction of the workers. When workers tried to re-enter the plant:

They had only taken a few steps when the police began shooting: tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, then lead. The police even charged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, in their white headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. Dozens of demonstrators were injured and police fired tear gas into a hospital where some had taken refuge.

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