Slavery and Argentina

Official figures indicate that half of the Argentina's 165,000 textile workers labor in conditions of "slavery."

Courtesy: Press TV

(BUENOS AIRES) - Police in Argentina have arrested 14 illegal Bolivian and Peruvian workers, after storming eight unregistered factories in Buenos Aires Province.

The police clashed with a group of stone-throwing Bolivian and Peruvian workers on Thursday after they raided the factories in Buenos Aires.

The workers detained by the police were referred to immigration authorities.

Police said those detained were working under slavery-like conditions.

"Well, I think that people perhaps weren't totally knowledgeable of how these people were living here really in inhumane conditions," a police officers was quote by Reuters as saying.

The police raid came as part of a plan to crackdown on secret textile plants.

Official figures indicate that half of the Argentina's 165,000 textile workers labor in conditions of "slavery."

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Source: Press TV