Blocked protest in Buenos Aires

Left-wing activists in Argentina prevented an anti-Iran demonstration.

Argentine Jewish groups organized a demonstration Wednesday in front of the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires to protest Iran's support for Hezbollah.

But some 50 members of the group Quebracho stopped traffic and blocked the street so the Jewish demonstration couldn't proceed.

Argentine Jewish leaders expressed serious concern and demanded the freedom to demonstrate.

According to my informant in Buenos Aires, the police did nothing to protect that freedom, though there had been regular protests outside the Israeli embassy during the recent conflict. A report in Spanish here. (Thanks: EM.)