Alejandro was born in a humble family and with his four brothers he was raised by his mother, Luisa Salas, a lifetime that forged his combative and supportive character. As a good part of the population of its province, it is Coya.
The 90s ran when Alejandro was a secondary student and already participated in the marches of state workers supporting their claims and organized with their classmates to stand up the student center.
At the end of the studies, Alejandro obtained a scholarship to study architecture at the National University of San Juan. There he participated in the fight against the educational reform of the Government of Carlos Menem, and took his first steps in the militancy of the left, upon entering the “in a red code”, the student group promoted by the Party of Socialist Workers (PTS).
At the years he had to return to his native Jujuy and became one of the founders of PTS in that province. “Marxism changed my life,” he recalls from those years.
As soon as he returned he did everything. It was Mozo, mason, ice cream, operator of a plastic factory, insurance seller and cartoonist for an architect until in 2001, it became a precarious state worker.
She was part of the Provincial Coordinator of Black Workers, who grouped and unified precarious employees of health, education, and other state distributions. As a result of that, Alejandro became a worker of the collection of waste in the popular high -feeder neighborhood. From there, he spent the last years fighting for the rights of the most exploited workers, as in the tobacco industry, sugar and the rural ones, as well as for the rights of native peoples, women and against environmental destruction.
Thus, it became an undisputed reference of combativeness and labor struggle. That reference, plus the ideas on the left, made it elected provincial deputy in 2017. From there he headed important debates against radicalism and Peronism, which has been distributed by the Government of the province for years. But he also accompanied all the struggles that occurred in those years.
In 2021 he achieved another very important fact: he was the first national leftist deputy and worker in the history of the province. Vilca always put the bench at the service of the interests of the workers and villages of the NOA and the whole country. From there he headed complaints against precarious work, in support of an intercosecha law for rural workers and against the delivery of the lily, among others.
This Wednesday was brutally repressed with retirees, which will only strengthen their deep fighting convictions.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
