Updated: July 2, 2002

Press Pictures Implicate Argentine Officers in Killings
Two Argentine police officers have been arrested and 100 more suspended after two protesters were shot dead during a wave of violent demonstrations observers say threaten the survival of the caretaker administration of President Eduardo Duhalde.

Argentina, Struggle and repression in Buenos Aires
The police have launched a furious repression against the unemployed, workers, men, women and children on the Pueyrredón Bridge that joins the city of Buenos Aires with Greater Buenos Aires. Furthermore the police destroyed houses and the Izquierda.

Argentina: Mobilizations Spread After Two Killed
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 are juxtaposed against the haunting figure of this young fighter. His assassins will always have the stigma of taking a great friend 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.

Two Argentines Shot Dead in Anti-Government Riots
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Two Argentines were shot dead on Wednesday, as hundreds of anti-government demonstrators fought pitched battles with police in the worst riots since an elected government was toppled in December.

Argentina's Duhalde faced with day of protests over economic policies
The economic policies of President Eduardo Duhalde and his government came under fire, in a day of strikes within the public and schools sector, as protesters blocked more than a thousand roads.

Rioting In Argentina Continues
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –– Rioters ransacked banks, destroyed ATM machines and set fires across downtown Buenos Aires early Friday after a night of street protests against a government freeze on bank deposits turned violent.

Argentina Erupts
The events began on Tuesday, December 18 and spread to the suburbs of Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Food riots and other examples of direct action were reported throughout northeastern Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, and looting occurred at several stores and supermarkets.

Argentina: An Anti-IMF Revolution

Argentina to Devalue as President Slams Free Market

Argentina Gets Another President for a Day

Argentines Bang Pots to Protest, Spit on Politicians

Argentina's Interim President Resigns

New Battle in Argentine Capital

Argentines Loot Congress

The Battle for Buenos Aires

OSL on Argentine Revolt

Argentina Erupts

Looting erupts over IMF/Argentine austerity measures

Argentina Erupts: looting and burning

Argentina: Inside Zanón: workers congress

Cartoon by Latuff

FEATURES

Argentina: lessons for Anarchism
Since winter inhabitants of Argentina are attacking the State, holding its accomplices from left and extreme left to ridicule. They challenge capitalism, create general assemblies to a large scale never seen since 1936 Spain; and all that without any leader coming on the stage. They chose to struggle freely against state and capitalist terrorism.

Bartering grows in Argentina
MONTE GRANDE -- Regina Vereya has had enough of Argentina's economic crisis: First sales dried up at her cigarette and soft-drink shop, then came the armed robberies. Frightened and unable to turn a profit, she sold her store, took up bartering and joined the swelling ranks of millions of Argentines who are being shoved out of the cash economy by the worst recession on record.

Some comments on neighbourhood assemblies
Even before the events of 19 and 20 December, and faced with the increasing deterioration of the economic and institutional situation, in some neighbourhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, local people began to meet up, almost spontaneously, on street corners, to share their unease and to discuss effective forms of protest. In the two weeks that followed the fall of Fernando De la Rua, the phenomenon multiplied, with around twenty neighbourhood assemblies being held and the creation of an inter-neighbourhood assembly.

"The Open Door"
A chat with Osvaldo Escribano and Antonio López, at the anarchist library, la Biblioteca Popular José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires, 14/7/99

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IMC - Argentina