Argentine minister to review police performance in Maldonado case
Buenos Aires, Dec 25 (Prensa Latina) Argentine new Security Minister Sabina Frederic announced a review of disciplinary actions of the Gendarmerie personnel involved in the case of murdered Santiago Maldonado, whose disappearance and subsequent death shook the country in 2017.
Frederic told Metro radio station 'there were responsibilities' by the police forces in the case of Maldonado, who had gone to show solidarity with the Pu Lof Mapuche community in the town of Cushamen in Chubut. The young man disappeared during the police repression.
Maldonado was found floating in the cold waters of the Chubut River 78 days after an incessant search and demonstrations, but it is still a mystery to many how he got there.
Frederic announced that disciplinary actions of the National Gendarmerie involved in the Maldonado case and also in the case of Rafael Nahuel, a young Mapuche killed during another repression against the indigenous community Lafken Winkul Mapu, also in 2017, will be reviewed.
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You'll recall, Judi, that Eugene recently posted a very good article on Monday's protests against the passage of a provincial bill watering down Mendoza's mining regulations.
The governor, Rodolfo Suárez, is a close Macri ally (one of only three remaining right-wing governors in Argentina) - and true to form, ordered the police to quash first and ask questions later.
Suárez's bill is especially controversial because it seems to have been tailor-made for mining interests that include his political godfather, Ernesto Sanz.
Sanz is in a board of directors of a mining firm that stands to directly benefit from the mining deregulation.
If Suárez drew up that bill at Sanz's direction (as appears to be the case), and then ordered police to be brutal with protesters, that requires federal charges.
We'll see where this goes.
Thanks again, and I trust you had a warm and memorable Christmas. 
