Qualla: Ledesma S.A.A.I. https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/c/b/ledesma-s-a-a-i-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ledesma S.A.A.I. https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i Ledesma S.A.A.I.: Introduction https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i/ Photo credit Unknown photgrapher, Public domain. In July 1976, the lights went out across Libertador General San Martin. They went out in the houses and the streets, in the small Jujuy town of Calilegua nearby, everywhere except one place: the factory of the Ledesma sugar mill, which stayed lit. In the darkness, under the cover of a blackout that spared only the company, security forces moved through the streets in vehicles and rounded up workers, union delegates, and activists. That night, and the cooperation it implied, would shadow the company for decades. But the story of Ledesma begins much earlier, and in a far gentler register.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/c/b/ledesma-s-a-a-i-wp/6ecb-ledesma-s-a-a-i-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ledesma S.A.A.I.: Sugar in the San Francisco Valley https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i/ Photo credit Unknown photgrapher, Public domain. It started with cane. In 1830, José Ramírez Ovejero González planted the first sugarcane fields at Ledesma, a remote hamlet in the warm, fertile valley of the San Francisco River in Jujuy Province. His heirs built a steam-powered sugar mill in 1876, and the family enterprise grew...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/c/b/ledesma-s-a-a-i-wp/6ecb-ledesma-s-a-a-i-sugar-in-the-san-francisco-valley.mp3 0:06 2 full Ledesma S.A.A.I.: An Empire of Fields and Mills https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i/ Photo credit Unknown photgrapher, Public domain. Today Ledesma is one of Argentina's largest agribusinesses, employing more than 7,700 people. Around Libertador General San Martin its holdings are vast: tens of thousands of hectares of sugarcane, thousands more of fruit orchards, mills turning out sugar, cellulose, and paper, d...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/c/b/ledesma-s-a-a-i-wp/6ecb-ledesma-s-a-a-i-an-empire-of-fields-and-mills.mp3 0:06 3 full Ledesma S.A.A.I.: La Noche del Apagón https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i/ Photo credit Unknown photgrapher, Public domain. That dominance is inseparable from its darkest chapter. Between roughly July 20 and 27, 1976, in the early months of Argentina's military dictatorship, the power was cut across Libertador General San Martin and Calilegua while the Ledesma plant remained illuminated. Police, army,...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/c/b/ledesma-s-a-a-i-wp/6ecb-ledesma-s-a-a-i-la-noche-del-apag-n.mp3 0:06 4 full Ledesma S.A.A.I.: Names That Did Not Return https://qualla.com/ledesma-s-a-a-i/ Photo credit Unknown photgrapher, Public domain. Memory has proven more durable than justice. The people taken that week were not statistics; they were neighbors, parents, and coworkers who had asked for fairer treatment and were forcibly disappeared for it, and their families have spent half a century demanding an accounting. ...

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