Argentina: Children’s Deaths Spur Protests against Illegal Sweatshop

Neighbors and members of social and political organizations marched to a clandestine sweatshop on Thursday to demand justice for two children, aged 7 and 10, who were killed in a fire in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires last April 27. Trapped in the basement of a house where the clandestine sewing workshops operated, they died from devastating burns. Although the circumstances are still being investigated, it is presumed they died in a situation of labor exploitation. Their deaths have prompted a series of demonstrations in which protests have demanded punishment for those responsible and a change in government policy regarding the regulation of such enterprises. Leo Poblete reports from Buenos Aires for teleSUR.