Argentina: Activists Arrested & Brutal Police Repression After Monsanto Law is Approved

14th June The leg­is­la­ture of Cor­do­ba approved a con­tro­ver­sial Mon­san­to Law yes­ter­day. Pro­test­ers from Malv­inas Lucha por la Vida, Madres de Itzuzaingó, and oth­er social orga­ni­za­tions held a peace­ful protest to con­test the law.

The police inter­vened vio­lent­ly repress­ing the pro­test­ers and arbi­trar­i­ly detain­ing any­one who looked like a pro­test­er. 26 peo­ple total were arrest­ed includ­ing Sofia Gat­i­ca and many were injured. Sofia Gat­i­ca told Argenti­na Inde­pen­dent the law was cre­at­ed so Mon­san­to can legal­ly move into the province.

The new law has been passed after a 9 month block­ade on con­struc­tion of a new GMO seed pro­cess­ing plant. You can read archives of cov­er­age from Rev­o­lu­tion News of this epic bat­tle against the multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tion here.