The Government of Buenos Aires announced that it will deploy a “special preventive operation” in the Congress area that will include a fence, before the debate scheduled for this Thursday in the Chamber of Senators for the agreement that the Nation signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order to “avoid new disturbances” such as those that occurred last week.
“Given the incidents that occurred in the march against the agreement with the IMF, which endangered people and property in the surroundings and inside the National Congress, the City Government has made the decision to deploy a special preventive operation that allow to avoid new disturbances during the voting of the same in the Senate”, informed the Buenosairean administration.
For this reason, from “the vicinity of the Congress will be closed by means of a fence, thus comprising a perimeter comprised of the avenues Entre Ríos, Callao, Rivadavia, Combate de los Pozos and the front that overlooks the Plaza del Congreso”.
“As part of this deployment, there will be the presence of a significant number of troops and the accompaniment of the team of traffic and security agents, to order traffic around the demonstration,” they added in a statement.
The measure was announced by the Buenos Aires Security and Justice Ministers, Marcelo D’Alessandro, and the Government Minister, Jorge Macri, during a press conference in which they also reported on the arrest of a 31-year-old man in the Buenos Aires party of Quilmes. who is presumed to have been the one who “prepared and threw the Molotov cocktail at the police officers” on Thursday.
Meanwhile, tomorrow’s operation will be “supported by the video surveillance cameras arranged in the area, which will be supervised from the Urban Monitoring Centers of the City Police to avoid episodes of violence and intervene quickly if necessary.”
“The intention of the City authorities and the public forces that depend on them is not, under any circumstances, to prevent the free demonstration of those who oppose the agreement with the IMF; but past episodes of violence indicate that the presence of the fence and police personnel are a necessary condition to prevent minority groups from impeding the proper functioning
