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Groups of cargo truckers they meet this Wednesday a week of protests and road blocks, amid opposition sites for the Government to adopt more drastic measures and evacuate the routes in order to avoid shortages.
In the middle of the conflict, a great commotion caused the images of a party on the route in which they participated of the stripper dancers and that the unionized truckers carried out in the middle of the night curfew that governs the entire country due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The criticisms were immediate, even from the Government a criminal complaint.
“We will file a criminal complaint for article 318 of the Penal Code because, as we have done since the beginning of this pandemic, we said that those people who fail to comply with the measures of the health authority not only put their own health at risk, but that of all the others ”, commented the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli.
About, José Villagrán, president of Fedesur, one of the mobilized truck drivers’ unions condemned the controversial video. However, he slipped the idea that the images could be false and also assured that, if they are real, there is no possibility that this has happened in the southern part of the country.
Sex workers accuse rights violations
In this context, one of the organizations that brings together sex workers They delivered a public statement rejecting the violation of their rights and the stigma to which they were exposed with the controversial images.
It’s about the Margin Foundation for the Support and Promotion of Women, member of the Network of Women Sex Workers of Latin America and the Caribbean (Redtrasex), who, along with rejecting the mobilization of truckers, accuse “the extreme violation of the rights of women sex workers who have been violently exposed in a controversial nightly demonstration of unemployed drivers.”
“Women sex workers are not accomplices of violent and unjust demonstrations such as the truckers’ strike”
– Margin Foundation for the Support and Promotion of Women
As they add, regarding this controversy, expressions have been heard that reinforce the stigma and social discrimination towards women sex workers, who carry out “an activity not regulated by law but socially, police and institutionally persecuted.”
“Women sex workers are not accomplices in violent and unjust demonstrations such as the truckers’ strike, but rather a contribution to the tireless struggles for labor, social and sexual rights, representing an active contribution to the urgent sexual health policies in Chile”, they assure .
“We regret being exposed – once again – to public derision. We are not objects or motives for ridicule, we are citizens with rights ”, they conclude.
Read the full statement below:
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