Justice for Indigenous Leader Milagro Sala

By Matías Duarte, Argentinean Attorney

April 2021

In 1999, indigenous leader Milagro Sala founded Túpac Amaru Neighborhood Organization in Argentina’s Jujuy province in response to extreme poverty in the region. Its highly successful collective project built housing and implemented social policies to benefit the most vulnerable. The author details the illegality and injustice in the multiple prosecutions mounted against Ms. Sala, directed at stopping the organizing of the largely indigenous population.