Represion policial contra los estudiantes en la provincia de Tucuman 1970

Tucuman: Report where the Costa Rican journalist Rodríguez Paz comments: - "A Tucuman police assault vehicle that has suffered the impacts of the miguelitos in the two front tires, this car was driven and carried police personnel from the Federal Police infantry guard. This is the appearance of one of the corners of Tucuman, there are several in this state. Mendoza and San Juan are the streets. A group of young people aged 20, 18 and 25 form a barricade with some broken and burned signs, with that they are forming the classic barricade. A group of people up on a terrace also collaborated while the water on the corner comes out into the street, there are several corners in this situation and we say this because we have seen them with completely destroyed fire hydrants. No one acts in this case to repair them, and the barricades are formed without police work in any way preventing them. - San Juan, exactly at 800. The police arrive. Presumably run, people leave Quickly, he disappears from around the corner. Police tear gas against protesters' objects. The police are exactly 80 meters from here and are firing tear gas, the air is practically unbreathable. - Cordoba and Junin, a barricade is burning, but here on Pasaje Padilla another barricade is burning. 100 meters from here, the police are not intervening. - A police car has approached about 30 meters to the barricade and practically everyone has disappeared. Behind the camera, the Tucumán police are also approaching the barricade installed exactly half a block away; the barricades are not extinguished. The fire hydrants are completely broken. The firefighters are not intervening. This is police personnel from the province of Tucumán. There they are firing tear gas at a vacant lot that is approximately 80 meters long, where there are presumed to be protesters. - Cordoba at 700, the police are repelling with tear gas. Police from the province of Tucumán are working. Tucumán, we are 10 meters away. From above they are throwing rocks and bottles, and the police are only repelling the attack with tear gas; you can see it. We arrived at Cordoba and Batalla de Maipú, and the police have been attacked, we believe with tear gas as well; they are repeating the same thing with tear gas as well. This is the situation in the city of Tucumán, at 7 p.m. We are on Muñecas Street, almost in the center of Tucumán, Muñeca 100 exactly. We are seeing some Tucumán police patrol cars, some tear gas, and some running very close to the university cafeteria. Here, some Tucumán police officers are blocking traffic, as you can see. There have been minor incidents, and they are not letting anyone through along Muñecas Street toward the Government House. We are exactly one block from the Government Palace. Some bricks have been unexpectedly thrown at a Tucumán police truck, glass and bricks, you can see some. Rubble also at this moment, right in front of the university cafeteria on Muñecas Street. They continue throwing bricks at some signs that are installed in front of the National Teachers' College. There, the police are repelling with tear gas. It's clearly an attack by people located somewhere, we don't know, on some terrace. You can see it, it's a Tucumán police truck. They're repelling with tear gas, you can see it. There must be approximately 20 or 30 people. We're between two fires. We have to move when we can, and there's a Tucumán police truck on one corner, another on the other corner, and it seems they're about to attack. It seems as if all personnel are descending to occupy the buildings from where they're throwing bricks and rubble. I repeat, this happened at 1:30 p.m. in front of the university cafeteria, two blocks from the Government House. The smoke from the tear gas is practically unbreathable here. We have tear gas on top of the camera and on top of us. We're practically working alone, and now it seems as if they're not throwing any more. "Rubbish." (Tico Rodríguez Paz) Date: 11/12/1970 Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds D-02371 Copyright DiFilm Archive - Inquiries about archival material [email protected] - http://www.difilm-argentina.com More videos and information at:   / difilm   or Follow us on:   / archivodifilm