Argentine legislator shot from behind by police during demonstration
A violent eviction by police against workers occupying a shuttered sawmill in the city of Neuquén, in southwestern Argentina, resulted in seven injured demonstrators - among them Provincial legislator Raúl Godoy, who was shot in the ankle from behind.
"I identified myself as a legislator; but the police ignored me," Godoy recounted after being treated in a local hospital. "An officer came up behind me and shot me in the leg, wounding me in the ankle and fracturing the fibula."
Police, who arrived in heavy riot gear, had refused to show Godoy the judicial warrant as Argentine law requires. He was reportedly shot while mediating between police and the evicted workers.
Godoy had joined representatives from social advocacy groups and leftist political parties to lend their support to the 97 employees at the Maderas Al Mundo (Wood to the World) sawmill, who have kept the 30 year-old facility running since its closure by its private owners in July.
Godoy, 52, was appointed to Neuquén Province Legislature in 2012 to fill a vacant seat, and was confirmed in the post by voters in 2015. He had worked since 1993 in the FaSinPat ceramics plant, whose recovery by workers in 2001 after its owner abandoned the firm was brought to international awareness by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis' 2004 documentary, The Takeover.
Some 350 firms have been similarly recovered by their own workers after a decade of free-trade policies resulted in the country's worst economic crisis in modern history in 2001. They grew to employ around 25,000 by 2013.
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Neuquén Province Legislator Raúl Godoy after being shot from behind by police yesterday
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