The Chubutazo was the best tribute to the revolutionary outburst of 2001 in Argentina

Early in the morning of December 20, the streets of Rawson were clear.

The buildings of the ministries and state buildings were easily recognizable, their walls were still scorched by the fire of the days of fury on Wednesday and Thursday and their windows destroyed. In those empty buildings only a handful of policemen were seen walking around.

Walking through the sidewalks of the city center it was evident that this city had been the epicenter of a fierce combat. In the streets, tree beds or boulevards,bullet casings from the Itakas of the GEOP and Infantry, dark blue rubber bullets and cans of tear gas, could be found. The fallen trees of "Guillermo Rawson" Square have been used as barricades, the stones of the sidewalks that were been repaired used to defend from the fierce repression.

The fences in government agencies were piled up at the corners and, peering out from the broken windows of the burning buildings, you could still smell the smoke and see the black soot reaching the ceilings in the Government House, at the entrance to the Legislature, in the Superior Court of Justice and even at the main entrance door to the Police Station N°1 of Rawson. The masses had destroyed the citadel of power of the corrupt politicians and lackeys of the transnationals and the big capitalists.

It is that an enormous combat had developed there.

Before the vote of the Zoning Law, the fury was general and no one was going to back down. It is that the imposition of mega-mining was the last straw that broke the camel's back of the enormous unprecedented ailments that Chubut workers have been suffering. They come from attacking all our conquests, thousands of us had lost our jobs, the agreements were liquidated, education and health are in a frank bankruptcy and ... now they were coming for water.

Speaking with a fellow teacher from Rawson, she confirmed this to us: “The vote on the law was the last straw. We are tired of the tampering, here the hospitals don’t have resources, we were months without payment in 2018 and 2019, we have not had increases, inflation is unbearable.
Our families are full of unemployed. There is a youth that has no expectations for the future.
What could we do?
We rose up against years of the tampering, they took everything from us and now they want to finish stealing our water. "

It was December 20, the 20th anniversary of the great Argentine revolution, which had made all the bosses' politicians tremble and flee in disarray and even the rotten union bureaucracy of the CGT and CTA.

Huge caravans from the Andes Mountains, from ComodoroRivadavia and Sarmiento arrived in Rawson, while from Trelew and Madryn also marched with delegations that started from the roadblocks that had begun early that day.

The silence and relative inertia seen in Rawson early in the morning ended at 11 o'clock. At that time the drums of the mobilization were heard, the songs against the government, the mining companies. "LET’S MAKE THEM ALL GO, LET THEM NEVER RETURN " was the slogan that echoed on the concrete of the central buildings of the capital. Undoubtedly, in Chubut the best tribute was paid to the 2001 revolution and to the 40 fallen in those battles in Plaza de Mayo.