[Diggers350] Sat26Aug-Sun03Sep Monkton Resist-Fest, Dorset | Argentine cops kill key land activist at demo

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Buenos Aires authorities face questions after MST 
campaigning journalist dies at hands of police

https://tlio.org.uk/buenos-aires-authorities-police-face-questions-after-land-rights-journalist-dies-at-hands-of-police/

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August 2023 
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Photojournalist and social justice activist 
Facundo Molares has been officially pronounced 
dead after being detained during a demonstration 
against the Argentine primaries last Sunday.

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<https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/former-farc-guerrilla-fighter-dies-after-arrest-at-demonstration.phtml>https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/former-farc-guerrilla-fighter-dies-after-arrest-at-demonstration.phtml

The Buenos Aires City Police Force and City Hall 
officials were under pressure on Friday after the 
death of a demonstrator at a protest.

Facundo Molares, an Argentine identified as a 
former FARC guerrilla fighter, died after taking 
part in a demonstration with activists from the 
Rebelión Popular group near the Obelisk in central Buenos Aires.

Human rights groups said Morales was a victim of 
police repression. He reportedly lost 
consciousness while being pinned to the floor by City police officers.

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Activist, photographer and reporter Facundo 
Molares died as a result of the actions of the 
Buenos Aires City Police at a demonstration by 
the Obelisk, the Centre for Legal and Social 
Studies (CELS) said in a post on social media.

Human rights organisation Abuelas de Plaza de 
Mayo repudiated the brutal doings of the City of 
Buenos Aires Police that led to the death of Facundo Molares.

Molares was a former FARC guerrirlla fighter who 
had been arrested in Santa Cruz, Bolivia during 
the countrys election in 2019, which ended in 
the exile of former president Evo Morales.

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His death was confirmed by the Buenos Aires City 
Hall in a press release, though they did not name the victim.

Attempts to resuscitate him lasted over half an 
hour, until he was declared dead. The cause of 
death is related to a cardiac arrest due to risk factors, the report stated.

Buenos Aires City mayor and presidential hopeful 
for the opposition Juntos por el Cambio 
coalition, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, said he was 
sorry for his death in a press release. However, 
he also fully backed the actions of the police officers.

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Soon after his death, television channels 
broadcast a video recorded at the time of 
Molares arrest. Images showed the man 
immobilised on the floor, with his hands on his back, by three police officers.

Hes turning purple, let him breathe, a woman 
can be heard saying in the video. Hes dying, 
she shouts, imploring people to call an ambulance.

According to demonstrators, police officers sought to delay his resuscitation.

We were in front of the Obelisk at the square 
having a peaceful chat, a meeting about Sunday, 
about the voting (
) We were about to leave, 
Delia Delgado, a demonstrator who attended the rally, told AFP.

That was when the police approached covertly 
and started detaining people, she claimed.

Thats when the chaos started. We realised 
afterwards that some comrades were missing. They 
arrested five. Molares was being held by six 
officers in a circle, on his back, holding him 
with a knee on the back of his head. He was 
already dead, he was on the floor for 40 minutes, she said.

Demonstrators stayed by the Obelisk and put 
together a large banner which read: Facundo was murdered by the State.

Campaign closing rallies were cancelled amid the 
commotion about the death of an 11-year-old girl 
on Wednesday near her school in Lanús.
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