Two died when facing piqueteros the police

Radicalized groups of left destroyed businesses and burned cars and groups

Two died piqueteros, 90 hurt and 160 stopped in the middle of a gresca of unusual violence with the Buenosairean police, in Avellaneda, collapsed yesterday the conviction of the government of Eduardo Duhalde of which the political and social conflict had been contained.

The uncontrol untied in the environs of the Pueyrredón bridge, when about 500 militants of radicalized organizations of unemployed people and political provokers tried to cut the way, added another signal of alarm in the society, that will have to today support to a march of protest to the Seat of May and unemployment of the Power station of Argentine Trabajadores (CTA), in sentence - therefore they have called it by the happened thing.

The head of the operative one of security in the bridge, commissioner Alfredo Franchiotti, assured that their forces did not carry lead projectiles and accused the piqueteros to shoot with firearms.

From the Government, the secretary of Inner Security, Juan Jose Alvarez, was the envoy of Duhalde to offer the official explanations at night.

The confrontation began at noon and hardly lasted five minutes, sufficient to cause victims and destructions without precedent in which it goes of the year.

A column of piqueteros surprised by the back the fence mounted police officer to protect the Pueyrredón bridge, while another group of demonstrators sent to stones and woods.

Immediately, the police tried to evacuate to the rebels with tear gases. In the fled one, the demonstrators destroyed show windows of commerce in Avellaneda and set afire tens of cars parked in the zone. They sounded firings. Minutes later one would know that they were not only rubber bullets.

The persecution extended by the environs of the bridge. In fact, one of deads was found in the hall of the station of trains of Avellaneda.

The head of Cabinet, Alfredo Atanasof, had noticed Tuesday that the Government would not tolerate new cuts of routes and streets, in answer to the call of the most radical sectors of the piquetero movement to a day of national protest.

The Working Pole (PO), Territorial Movimiento Liberation (MTL), the Coordinator Aníbal Verón, the Movement Teresa Rodriguez, the Independent Movement of Rejoiced and Pensioned and the organization Districts of foot were some of which they organized those manifestations.

In the morning, the undersecretary of Security, Carlos Vilas, had reiterated who would be made a "important operative one of control" in which there would not be errors.

In all the accesses to the city they unfolded from early police forces and of the National Gendarmerie to contain the protests. The Pan-American one, the Uriburu bridge and the Saavedra bridge were some of the ways in which blockades of the transit were expected.

But the tension was concentrated in Avellaneda. "This people came with all the intention to fight with us… With woods, Navy, with rags covering its face. I do not say that one was an army, but is people that was going to fight ", indicated commissioner Franchiotti soon.

Sources of the National Gendarmerie and the Buenosairean police wondered how the agents who integrated the operative one of security could be surprised by the rear, something that never happens in this type of protests.

From the Government, stops civil employees suggested last night happened it could be a confrontation between antagonistic sectors of the piquetero movement.

Enrique Pini, a neighbor of Avellaneda that appeared to declare after the events, related the NATION that saw how two piqueteros threw firearms to the street during fled his.

A colectivero that passed by the place denounced in the police station 1a. of Avellaneda that another group of encapuchados assaulted with Itaka guns and automatic pistols shortly before the confrontation. Soon they set afire the vehicle with pumps molotov.

The story was spread by the head of the operative one, who had a wound in the left eye. A piquetero wildly struck it by the back while it made declarations to the press in the Fiorito hospital, where had been transferred the victims.

With an important sector of Avellaneda devastated by the effects of the pitched battle, the tension was transferred to the welfare center, where a group of piqueteros concentrated itself to request information on the wounded and to continue with the protest.

One of the directors of the hospital, Walter Cape, announced that the passed away demonstrators are Darío Santillán, of 21 years, militant of the Movement of Workers Vacated of Lanús, and Maximiliano Costeki, of 25, member of the group Aníbal Verón.

Other four piqueteros continued boarding schools, two of them in delicate state, after being operated. Like the mortal victims, had taken hits of lead bullets, said in the hospital.

Altogether, 20 hurt entered in that center of health, two of them were police. Injured others of smaller gravity were taken care of in Wilde and Lanús.

While the tragic result was known the confrontation, the police evacuated without causing wounded other three accesses to the Capital.

Shortly after the 16, president Duhalde locked in itself in a meeting with most of his cabinet to analyze the happened thing. In the short while one found out that the piqueteros summoned for a march to the Seat of May, that will be made today.

Raul Castells, Retired and Pensioned leader of the Independent Movement of, called to cause a popular rise. "We go by another 20 of December that ends this disaster. These facts mark to the aim of a government cipayo the International Monetary Fund (the IMF)", emphasized in a press conference when summoning to this new challenge.

The Power station of Argentine Trabajadores (CTA) informed, last the 17, who will accompany the manifestation with active unemployment.

For that hour, the environs of the House of Government and the Congress already were fence and the Federal Police won the streets.

Militants and leaders of ARI and several parties of left improvised a protest in the Seat of May when falling the night, that finished without incidents took place. A group of young people with flags of the association Mothers of Seat of May cut the Callao avenue, in front of the Congress, and was repelled by the police with tear gases.

The building of the Parliament had been evacuated to 15, as a result of a threat of pump received in the central telephone office.

Other demonstrators returned to that zone at night and burned a carp installed by followers of the ex- coup participant Mohamed Alí Seineldín.

The secretary Alvarez promised as soon as the happened thing will be investigated "until the last consequences" and reiterated the argument of which the piqueteros had initiated the aggression.

"he did not have with who to engage in a dialog. We have demonstrated in six months an enormous prudence in the use of the security forces. We must be asked what changed. We were or those that protested were others ", the civil employee asked itself.

Duhalde followed last hour of reunited yesterday with its collaborators, with the intention to design a prevention scheme. Delay today another tense day, of which it believed part of his past.