Qualla: Cutral Có https://qualla.com/cutral-co en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cutral Có https://qualla.com/cutral-co Cutral Có: Introduction https://qualla.com/cutral-co/ In June 1996, the people of Cutral Co dragged tires onto National Route 22, set them alight, and refused to move. The oil company that built their city had been sold off, the jobs were gone, and a town in the middle of the Patagonian desert decided it would block the only highway through it until the country paid attention. The roadblocks were called piquetes, and the men and women who manned them became piqueteros - a word that would soon define a generation of Argentine protest. It started here, on a burning stretch of asphalt in the desert.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/n/f/cutral-co-wp/63nf-cutral-c-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cutral Có: A City Made of Oil https://qualla.com/cutral-co/ Cutral Co had no reason to exist before petroleum. Founded in 1933 after oil was discovered in the surrounding desert of Neuquen's Confluencia Department, it grew up as a working town for the wells and refineries, twinned with its neighbor Plaza Huincul into a single industrial c...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/n/f/cutral-co-wp/63nf-cutral-c-a-city-made-of-oil.mp3 0:06 2 full Cutral Có: The Day the Jobs Left https://qualla.com/cutral-co/ Then the foundation was sold. The privatization of YPF, beginning in 1992, swept thousands of jobs out of Cutral Co and Plaza Huincul almost overnight, leaving a community built entirely around one employer with nothing to fall back on. The poverty that followed was not abstract ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/n/f/cutral-co-wp/63nf-cutral-c-the-day-the-jobs-left.mp3 0:06 3 full Cutral Có: The Birth of a Movement https://qualla.com/cutral-co/ What happened in Cutral Co rippled far beyond Neuquen. The cutralcazo, as the uprising came to be known, is widely regarded as the origin point of Argentina's piquetero movement - the wave of unemployed workers' protests that would shake the country through the economic crises of...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/n/f/cutral-co-wp/63nf-cutral-c-the-birth-of-a-movement.mp3 0:06 4 full Cutral Có: The Second Pueblada https://qualla.com/cutral-co/ The fire was not extinguished in 1996. In April 1997, a second uprising convulsed the twin cities, set off this time by teachers protesting salary cuts - and it turned deadly. On April 12, during a crackdown by provincial police and the Gendarmerie, a 9-millimeter bullet struck T...

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