"International Network Demands Release of Argentine Indigenous Leader Milagro Sala", 15 July 2026

...On Wednesday, the International Network of the New Socialism of the 21st Century (SOVINTERN) issued a statement demanding the immediate release of Milagro Sala, an Argentine Indigenous leader who founded the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization in Jujuy province in the late 1990s...

In January 2016, Sala was arrested after participating in a protest against the newly elected provincial government of Jujuy, which was interested in developing mineral extraction projects through transnational companies.

Prosecutors later brought multiple charges against her in separate cases...

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have expressed concerns about aspects of her detention and recommended measures including alternatives to pretrial detention...

Her current condition is extremely serious, as publicly stated by the prestigious Argentine doctor Dr. Jorge Rachid, who warned forcefully that ‘she feels abandoned and, without freedom, she cannot manage with autonomy to administer her life.’

The health professional has been clear in describing the mistreatment suffered by the social leader, pointing to institutional responsibility for her physical and psychological integrity...

Faced with this alarming reality, which imminently endangers the life of Milagro Sala, SOVINTERN demands an urgent humanitarian gesture from the judicial and political powers of the province of Jujuy, as well as from the Argentine government...