While repudiation and calls for immediate freedom for Liza Rule and Martín Iglesia, arrested last Thursday in a march against mega-mining in Mendoza, are growing throughout the country, Vice Governor Hebe Casado launched a new provocation to justify the repression and irregular arrests.
Liza and Martín were arrested at random, in the middle of a police provocation when the mobilization was reaching the Legislature, where a document would be read. They were detained and beaten by plainclothes police officers and forcibly entered the provincial Legislature, where they were detained and beaten, in an unprecedented and very serious incident. They were then transferred to the Judicial Pole (Martín) and the 7th police station of Godoy Cruz (Liza), where they are still detained without being charged with any crime.
Liza Rule is a recognized human rights reference for her activism in HIJOS and the PTS, and also as a classical dancer, who performed the remembered painting “La Patria en Vuelo” in the bicentennial celebrations, which mobilized the solidarity and repudiation of more than 300 artists throughout the country.
Casado, responding to a publication by Myriam Bregman demanding the freedom of Liza and Martín, wrote that “In Mendoza it does not matter if you are a NASA crew member, a classical dancer or whatever, if you block the street or damage public or private property you will be arrested.” A new provocation to justify the irregular arrests, having turned the provincial Legislature into a detention center and that they continue to be detained without being informed of charges from which to defend themselves.
They must have gone too far with the repression and illegal detentions for the vice governor to respond to me. https://t.co/gKvwafXmT1
— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) October 25, 2025
“They must have gone too far with the repression and illegal detentions for the vice governor to respond to me,” Bregman said ironically. For their part, the representatives of the Left Unity Front in the province also responded: “If you block the street, you will be imprisoned? In Mendoza, protest is still a right, even if you love the dictatorship,” responded Micaela Blanco Minoli.
If you block the street, will you be arrested? In Mendoza protest is still a right, even if you love the dictatorship. What you would have to explain is if you believe that arming protesters to guarantee the business of the megaminers and opening the Legislature as a detention center is legal https://t.co/sKw8p87o0X
— Micaela Blanco Minoli 💜💚 (@MicaBlancoMinol) October 25, 2025
Lautaro Jiménez also crossed Casado, ensuring that “The Vice Governor defends herself because she is responsible for providing the Legislature as an illegal Detention Center. Forces were committed inside (also illegal) and she will have to give explanations in court for her responsibility in a mafia operation. She will not have impunity.”
The Lieutenant Governor defends herself because she is responsible for providing the Legislature as an illegal Detention Center. Inside, threats were committed (also illegal) and he must give explanations in court for his responsibility in a mafia operation. You will not have impunity. https://t.co/Ind2hD9eLF
— Lautaro Jimenez (@LautaroJimenezB) October 25, 2025
Despite the provocations, solidarity and the request for immediate freedom continues to grow in Mendoza and the entire country. This Saturday there are again calls at the Judicial Pole and the 7th police station to demand the freedom of Liza and Martín.
Today she is vice governor but we will remember her for blocking streets with anti-vaccines, one who joined a party that did not affiliate her and above all for putting many gnocchi in her charge while spending millions.
Polluting water is not damage to public property? https://t.co/Z9RGh0qFAO— Maile Rodriguez Abalo (@Maile_Rod) October 25, 2025
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
