For seven years today, Milagro Sala, leader of the social movement Tupac Amaru, has been arbitrarily detained in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, due to the judicial harassment led by the local governor, Gerardo Morales. This detention is part of the larger context of development of Lawfare (“legal war”) strategies in Latin America-that is to say the use of judicial institutions for political persecution ends.
This “legal war” is characterized by a succession of trials mounted from scratch on the basis of multiple charges, by the appointment of judges modifying the composition of local courts, and by the corruption of witnesses. Of Aboriginal Original Colla, Milagro Sala has been sensitive since her adolescence in the extreme misery of slums.
Having become a union activist, she founded in 1991 the organization Tupac Amaru, named after the last Inca rebellious toe by the Spanish crown, and performs two exploits: feeding children from abandoned neighborhoods by distributing what will become the legendary “glass of milk ” – The expression COPAS of LECHE will designate by extension the milk distribution stations and other basic foodstuffs founded by the association; and use drug addicts, battered women, left-handed to ensure its distribution. 2> hundred and twenty self-production cooperatives
Quartier by district, city by city, solidarity actions are growing and organized in cooperatives. Having heard of this initiative, the Argentinian president Néstor Kirchner offers Milagro Sala for state subsidies, moreover, modest, intended for the construction of social housing in replacement of baraquements of the bars.
In 2015, the organization has 80,000 members: its activists, the Tupaquaks, work day and night in order to build dozens of homes at an infinitely lower than expected cost. They thus build 8,000 houses, several dispensaries, schools, cultural and sporting spaces, and small property production companies (ironwork, building materials, carpentry, etc.).
About 120 self -managed production cooperatives are founded, providing jobs to residents of the poorest districts and making the Tupac the third employer in the province. Thanks to this solidarity action, the association and its leaders restore the people to be lost identity and dignity.
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