Argentine police break up airport protest
Argentine police break up airport protest
AFP
3 hours ago
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine police used water cannon Tuesday to break up a protest by poultry workers facing layoffs who blocked access to the country's main international airport. The workers, who threw stones at the riot police, said at least 10 members of their group were wounded in the clashes.
The former employees of bankrupt poultry company Cresta Roja had blocked the road to Ezeiza airport outside Buenos Aires since last week, forcing some passengers to drag their suitcases for two kilometers (more than a mile) to catch their flights.
They are demanding new jobs and the wages they say they are still owed. Their spokesman, Cristian Villalba, blamed conservative new President Mauricio Macri for what he called a "brutal" crackdown.
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The crackdown by Macri's newly inaugurated administration represents a change in approach to labor protests, which had been tolerated for 12 years under leftist presidents Nestor and Cristina Kirchner.
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