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Humanist Association
of Hong Kong

G/F, 49 Kau Tsuen, Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong - Tel: 90487639
e-mail tonyhen@humanist.org.hk
Web page: http://humanistassociationhongkong.yolasite.com/
26 January 2016
To: Mr Gustavo Horacio Luis Fazzari, Consul General
Argentine Consulate General in Hong Kong,
412 Jardine House, 1 Connaught Place, Central
Hong Kong
TELEPHONE 2523 3208
FAX 2877 0906
EMAIL chong@cancilleria.gob.ar
Subject: Argentina: Free Milagro Sala
Humanists denounce and reject all forms of violence, in particular when people
who fight for social change are deprived of liberty, such is the case of Milagro
Sala.
Milagro represents a social organisation, Tupac Amaru, whose membership
consists of thousands and thousands of humble people, indigenous people from the
Argentinean province of Jujuy, a people who out of desperate need and State
neglect started to take charge of their lives in the times of unemployment and
absence of State support.
Then during the Government of the Front for Victory (2003-2015) the Tupac
Amarcu was strengthened with contributions from the State and the effort of its
members.

This happened through the work of its activists, tireless workers, who through food
suppliers, clothes producers and Community Cooperatives where able to build
houses, workshops, factories, water parks, schools of different levels,
infrastructure, and a long list of achievements for the welfare of each one of their
thousands of members.
The current Government under Gerardo Morales in Jujuy and Mauricio Macri in
Argentina as a whole, are cutting back on State spending through the sacking of
public sector workers. They are criminalizing social protest and going against one
of their campaign promises: Dialogue.
The arrest of Milagro Sala is a provocation to activists and the people of Argentina,
a provocation that we must and want to resist without violence, as has been the
case until now.
We call for the immediate release of Milagro Sala and the opening of channels of
dialogue between the government of Morales and Tupac Amaru, as well as for the
continuity of neighborhood and grass root organisations that, through Workers
Cooperatives, have brought, and will continue to bring welfare to the people.
We encourage the oppressed people of Argentina to develop protests,
denouncements, and actions without violence behind the claim for real democracy
to replace todays formal democracy which has proven totally inadequate to meet
the needs of the people for personal and social liberation.
The International Coordination Team of the Federation of Humanist Parties.
Supported by the federated organisation:
Humanist Association of Hong Kong
Tony Henderson, Chairman