Monsanto Contaminates the Environment and Democracy

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Denying votes, branding the protestors as violent, arranging acts of violence with UOCRA, so the company trucks could enter, pressuring the justice system, sharing with local media monopolies a watered down and almost "green" version of Monsanto, is affecting democracy.

Monsanto Contaminates the Environment and Democracy
Argenpress, Argentina
By Emiliom Marín
Translated By Olivia Szymanski
2 December 2013
Edited by Jane Lee

The multinational company that has monopolized transgenic seed production is once again in the news for violent situations it has caused. In the case of Córdoba, thugs from UOCRA — the Construction Workers’ Union of Argentina — and later police beat environmentalists and residents.

Taking place on Nov. 28, the latest news related to Monsanto came out of Córdoba, in the seed treatment plant that the multinational company is building without taking into account the latest environmental impact report required by environmental law.

At 8 a.m., 60 thugs brought in by UOCRA in two buses and other vehicles attacked at the protest campsite without prior warning. Tents had been set up there since Sept. 17, when the campsite led by the Neighborhood Assembly of Malvinas Struggles for Life was established. The mob beat young girls and boys, along with residents, with sticks and stones. This act of aggression had one specific goal: to get seven trucks from Monsanto’s plants in Rojas — a town in the province of Buenos Aires — to enter Córdoba’s plant and unload their cargo.

There were 20 injured, even though there were 10 police officers guarding the area. The officers did nothing to stop the aggression or break up the attack. Even worse, three hours later, when reinforcements from the Infantry Guard had arrived, instead of tending to the complaints of the attack victims, they pushed them back with rubber bullets.