Peppercorns, pepper spray and tension during the expulsion of a cut in Corrientes and Callao – 28/02/2019

A protest by FEMSA workers, Coca-Cola's historic bottling plant, took place on Thursday blows, jostling and tensions with the police, when troops attempted to evict the advance of Corrientes Avenue to Callao, in central Buenos Aires.

The protest had started at 7 am with a cup of workers dismissed from the factory bottling plant of Nueva Pompeya.

A group of troops first opened a path and then released Corrientes by moving the protesters to Callao. There were blows, races and pepper spray.

Mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, said the police "ordered and controlled" protesters, who had cut "two lanes". "We can not allow this if they are 20 years old", he said to the chain A24.

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At the same time, he acknowledged that "in the demonstration, there were enough people", but pointed out that "today, Corrientes and Callao do not cut every day as before".

Diego Santilli, Deputy Head of Government and Minister of Security of the City, badured The thirteen that the police "must act" and that "we must balance the existing constitutional rights: to manifest and circulate".

In a statement, workers reported that Wednesday FEMSA has made about 20 redundancies. For this reason, they had decided to focus today on Corrientes and Callao, March to the Ministry of Labor, Where the protest continues.

The Coca-Cola bottling plant is one of 21 companies that, in 2019, have asked the Ministry of Production for a Preventive Crisis Procedure (PPC).