In a few days it will be one month since the crime of Fernando Gómez, the border worker and bagayero who became the first death of the Milei-Bullrich administration in the midst of a persecution of workers and a protest. It was on December 18 at the 28 de Julio Gendarmerie Post, near Orán and Aguas Blancas.

In the last few hours, two important complaints were made known. The first, that of Ariel Gareca’s brother, one of the seriously injured. Daniel said that “the gendarmes grabbed him and shot him on the ground. They wanted to finish him off.” In dialogue with Salta 12 and other media he said: “We want justice to be done, to be investigated. My brother is not going to be able to work and he was the only breadwinner for his family, his daughter.” Ariel is 25 years old and has a bullet lodged in her head. He is hospitalized and is waiting to be fitted with a titanium plate.

The other important complaint is about the news in the case of Fernando Gómez, who died after being shot twice near the river, where the gendarmes wanted to discard the body.

Gareca’s lawyer, David Leiva, released a press report with the title: “The cause of the bagayeros-chancheros is still stalled” published by journalist Elena Corvalán. What’s new?

  • National Gendarmerie provided the list of gendarmes who were part of the repressive operation on the night of December 18. They are the ones who were at the post on Route 50. They are members of 6 detachments, not only from Salta but also from Tucumán and Santiago del Estero.
  • According to Commander Rafael Zselect (head of Squadron 20 Oran) 1,800 cartridge shots were fired with AT (anti-riot) ammunition. It says they were made at “a 45° angle to the ground.” Fake. There are wounded bagayeros with pellets in the face and head.
  • Gómez was murdered in an area known as La Playa, a mountain area. Fabián Gualpa was also injured in this sector. Gareca was shot later, already on Route 50, during the protest. In other words, bullets or lead pellets were used both in the mountains (persecution) and on the road (protest).
  • In the commander’s report there is no testimony that the patrol was shot at. As Leiva assures, “a confrontation with firearms between bagayeros and gendarmes is not planned.”
  • One of the most worrying complaints is that the autopsy report is not yet available, nor are there any seized weapons, nor are the results of the ballistic tests available. Therefore, there are no defendants either. With these arguments it is clear that the case is stagnant, as Leiva says.
  • The lawyer insists that the prosecution should begin “taking testimonies from the gendarmes who were in those circumstances and the bagayeros should also contribute their part.” At that point there was no progress either. For example, details of the complaint made by many witnesses could be known: the gendarmes tried to dispose of Gómez’s body in the Pescado River.

    A crime against the working class

    All these events, the subsequent town and the caravan that saw off Fernando were recounted in a shocking chronicle by Alejandro Vilca, our national deputy from the PTS-Left Front who was in Oran in those tumultuous days and today continues to support the cause.

    As he says here, “many are joining along the way: a parade of the Chancheros football club in front, supported by friends from the neighborhood, informal workers who are chanting slogans: “Out with the Güemes plan, out with the gendarmerie,” “ “Saenz is a murderer, Patricia Bullrich is a murderer, Milei is going to pay.” They swear that the crime will not go unpunished. They express the progress from the first spontaneous reaction in the streets to the murder of Gómez and the town that it unleashed, to the conscious idea about those responsible materially and politically.”

    Against the impunity in which the national and provincial governments and the judiciary want to leave the case, we must continue to spread the demand for justice from the bagayeros, chancheros, their families and the lawyers who fight against these powers. Justice for Fernando Gómez, Ariel Gareca and Fabián Gualpa.


    • Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com



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