On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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I had a vivid dream of seeing these really pretty blue flowers and I tried to take a picture with my phone but couldn't
but anyways they were really pretty
i wanna hear more about the flowers, what did they look like
whenever my mind starts getting anxious at night something, i just start thinking about the kind of flowers i'm going to plant or that will be planted soon so i've been dreaming a lot about gardening, and waking up thinking about plants :3
Last night i was dreaming about a local variant of sunflower i plan on planting
the petals were kind of like long, a little narrow? I don't really remember much of the shape and like my memory kind of hazey now, but I do remember more so the colors. like a bright light/kind of neon, kind of blue on the sides/outside, and near the base and like the inside, it was a dark bright blue but with darker deeper hues of blue. and there were a lot of petals and stuff. It's kind of hard to put into words, but really pretty. I really wish I could paint.
and that sounds really cool! and like a nice way to deal with anxious thoughts at night. and sunflowers are really great! I remember a few years I planted this one sunflower at my mom's that had like really deep red hues near the base/inside, along with the yellows. and it like grew very tall, taller than me. and gardening like pretty fun! I wish I could do it more, but I can't because either all the insects eat them, or the birds or the rabbits. like I remember one time waking up to like most of my plants just gone.
This is what stops most gardeners before they really become gardeners. I ended up making a wire enclosure over my entire garden and it was the best thing I have done for myself in a long time.
My sunflowers are going wicked good this year. The biggest are at about 6 inches tall at the moment. I put them in between my rows of corn and beans.