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Argentina Dissolves INTI Calibration Service as Police Disperse Worker Protest on General Paz

Officials call it administrative modernization, transferring calibration tasks to the accreditation body alongside private labs.

Overview

  • The resolution published in the Boletín Oficial disbands the Servicio Argentino de Calibración y Medición within INTI.
  • City police intervened after demonstrators blocked lanes on General Paz, with tires set ablaze and objects thrown, and they pushed the crowd off the main roadway to restore traffic.
  • The fiercest confrontations occurred near Villa Maipú in San Martín before protesters regrouped outside INTI’s site in Villa Martelli.
  • Participants, including social and political organizations, first gathered at the Parque Tecnológico Miguelete and then moved onto the frontage road, triggering a full stoppage of circulation.
  • ATE leader Rodolfo Aguiar vowed to resist the government’s labor overhaul, criticized a planned 10% reduction in the state workforce, and demanded renewal of roughly 70,000 contracts set to expire on December 31.