Government admits that police killed piqueteros Duhalde appeared today in an act of Prefecture, the same one that on Wednesday shot upon the demonstrators in conjunction with the police, saying that the repression had been “a ferocious hunting party.” The president spoke “against impunity,” and even spoke of the Cabezas case. The media, which before yesterday had shown broken shopwindows and hysterical businesspeople as their news headlines, today fought to see who would show the crudest imagines of the murder of Darío. Polititians, analysts, lawyers, all outline hypotheses and reconstruct the events, demonstrating once and again what all of us knew: that Darío and Maximiliano had been killed by the police. Atanasof (the presidential cabinet’s chief of staff) had to save his provocative declarations, and the lies were torn apart. The case of Duhalde is not just about a change in political position, but about a confession communiqué. The government was who prepared the repression; and it also has been agitating the media since weeks ago, promoting “hard-hand” (dealings with protesters), discussing the army’s training in repression tactics, threatening demonstrators. It is they, and no others, who are politically and intellectually responsible for the deaths of Darío and Maximiliano. This was not about, as Governor Solá had said, “an agile lunatic,” the Commissioner who shot on them, but rather about the person who, step-by-step, directed the brutal repression, the assassination of our comrades and the illegal breaking into the offices of Izquierda Unida (the United Left) and various people’s houses. This was a systematic, premeditated, political, and prepared plan by the government, which was executed through the government’s communications (media) machine, and now it is pretending to be uncovered, on the basis solely of the most bloody and coarse aspects. What will they try to do now? Will they try to put out a theory about two demons, to criminalize the demonstrators? With they jail some cops as scapegoats so that the essence of their plan remains unpunished? Will they continue with a controlled “hard hand” campaign? Perhaps it’s too early to tell now, but we should not let down our guard for a second.

Argentina IMC Statement | Photos & Audio | Timeline of Events | Eyewitness Testimony

Message from Argentina IMC: Three months ago, Dario proudly showed us a mountain of earth with a flag on it. Fifty families had helped to take this mountain. Last week, he told us that it was ready for people to settle there. Dario was 21 years old and today he was assassinated by the police. The complicity of the corporate media, the sweeping declarations from civil employees bounce against the haunting figure of this young fighter. His assassins will always have the stigma of taking a great companion from us. Dario died like he lived; when a bullet took his life from him, he was aiding a friend who was wounded on the floor. This is how we will remember him for each one of our days.

Dario Santillan of the MTD Lanus and Maximiliano Costeki of the MTD Pte. Peron, both of the CTD Anibal Veron, are the first victims of the new regime in Argentina.

Today, the government showed its true face. In the morning, it militarized all the areas where protests were anticipated. They mobilized the infantry, federal and provincial police, naval forces, water cannons, heavy tanks and helicopters. This is the true political and social regime of Duhalde from now on. Read More

Neighbors in Argentina Weave a New Solidarity

The Argentine Neighborhood Assemblies, born in early January 2002 from the December cacerolazos, are almost a half a year old. Despite repeated rumours that the assemblies are "dying out", the opposite seems to be true.

Though the individual assemblies are smaller in attendance than they were in January, and some are still beset by problems in organizing and finding common aims to work on, these 200 plus groups of neighbors continue to be an important force making "politics without politicians" in Buenos Aires and other major cities of this country, where poverty, unemployment and an unpopular bank freeze have magnified the struggles of every day life.

One assembly is actively participating in the administration of a local hospital, another is working with the streetside recyclers to help them maintain their source of income in the face of city government threats to turn over the recycling to private business, and others have continually showed up en masse to support the efforts and actions of their neighbors. Three weeks ago two pot-banging assemblies showed up to help a retired couple get their savings back in Colegiales (see argentina.indymedia.org article), and assemblies in Pompeya and San Telmo have gathered in large numbers to support workers who took over factories in those neighborhoods.

Julio Tamae of the Pompeya assembly says new participants are showing up every week at the meetings in his barrio. Another resident of Pompeya, Hernan Gonzales, says: "The assemblies continue to be the red line that is drawn before repressive government policies, the line that says "Here, and no further."
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The situation in Argentina grows more complex, fuelled by the resignation of economy ministwer Remes Lenicov after a law to change the peoples bank deposits from pesos or dollars to 5 or 10 year bonds (treasury notes). The aim was to stop the leacking of bank depostits that has been taking place in spite of cash wridthdrwal limitations inposed by the goverment (the so called "corralito"). However it is not only bank deposits who are sufering, Duahldes repeated attempts to calm down argentinas financial crisis, including a unemployment insurance for household bosses of less than 50 USD per month, they apear to have failed and social unrest fills the countrys air with extreme tension. People are gathering around congres while rumors similar to those that runed during the last hours of De La Ruas presidency fill the air. A webcam filming congress by the police cna be seen at here, while some images taken at 4.30 pm local time can be seen here

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