Watch: Violent clashes between police and slum dwellers in Argentina

Clashes erupted between police and demonstrators during the security forces’ intervention to dismantle a random camp in the suburb of the capital, Buenos Aires, to evacuate its residents, who had taken over the land illegally. The residents violently resisted the heavily armed police. Residents threw stones at security forces, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas grenades.

About 600 families have been living illegally in informal homes on an area of ​​nearly 100 hectares since last July, and the authorities canceled previous attempts to evacuate them, so the latest police intervention came after months of failed negotiations between the population and the government.

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