In a separate incident, Atahualpa Acosta of the daily "Diario de Cuyo" stated that while he was walking with photojournalist for the daily Marcos Urisa, police officers going by in a van fired rubber bullets at them.
"The demonstrators had dispersed from in front of the legislature and we were alone on one of the nearby streets. I had my reporter's notebook and Marcos was carrying his camera and a large zoom lens, so it was clear that we were journalists," Acosta explained.
The list of other journalists who were injured by rubber bullets include Alejandra Ruiz of the TV 2 Canal Proimagen station, Doly García of FM Santa Lucía and Juan Pereyra of LV5 Radio Sarmiento, who was injured during an incident in front of the Provincial Legislature building.
San Juan Government Minister Ricardo Aracena resigned following a public outcry and strong condemnations of the police repression. Nevertheless, Governor Alfredo Avelín replaced him with Eduardo Pósleman, the chief of police who was in charge of the police operation.
A number of media outlets expressed anger over the police's treatment of the journalists, but Pósleman played down the criticisms and suggested that the journalists had been caught accidentally in the middle of the police action.
"The demonstrators had dispersed from in front of the legislature and we were alone on one of the nearby streets. I had my reporter's notebook and Marcos was carrying his camera and a large zoom lens, so it was clear that we were journalists," Acosta explained.
The list of other journalists who were injured by rubber bullets include Alejandra Ruiz of the TV 2 Canal Proimagen station, Doly García of FM Santa Lucía and Juan Pereyra of LV5 Radio Sarmiento, who was injured during an incident in front of the Provincial Legislature building.
San Juan Government Minister Ricardo Aracena resigned following a public outcry and strong condemnations of the police repression. Nevertheless, Governor Alfredo Avelín replaced him with Eduardo Pósleman, the chief of police who was in charge of the police operation.
A number of media outlets expressed anger over the police's treatment of the journalists, but Pósleman played down the criticisms and suggested that the journalists had been caught accidentally in the middle of the police action.