Argentina: Gov't Meets Social Leaders to Discuss Sala's Release
Argentina: Gov't Meets Social Leaders to Discuss Sala's Release
Protesters march to demand freedom for jailed Indigenous leader and dissident lawmaker
Milagro Sala in Buenos Aires on Jan. 27, 2016. | Photo: AFP
Published 4 February 2016
The Catholic church organized a meeting between the government and supporters of Sala to discuss her release.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri's cabinet received several social leaders at the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires to discuss the release of Milagro Sala, a Parlasur lawmaker and Indigenous activist who founded the Tupac Amaru movement and who was arrested in mid-January on charges of inciting violence and later accused of other crimes.
The meeting was organized by Catholic leaders and the government accepted it be carried out two days after social organizations from the province of Jujuy agreed to remove the encampment they had maintained for 50 days on Belgrano Square, in front of the Governor Gerardo Morales.
However, the other encampment set up Jan. 28 at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires is still in place demanding Sala's immediate release.
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Nevertheless, days earlier Lozano warned in a CEPAS statement that social movements, human rights groups and civil organizations were being labeled “suspicious” by Macri's government.
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