Buenos Aires, January 9 (RHC-teleSUR), -- Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Argentina to protest against Monsanto following news of an impending eviction at a key resistance camp blocking a huge Monsanto GMO seed plant in the agricultural province of Cordoba.

Protests in Buenos Aires and other major cities on Friday slammed Monsanto over the dangers of widespread use of toxic agrochemicals on large-scale export crops like GMO soy and corn.

The camp, which set up the blockade in 2013 and successfully blocked the completion of the GMO plant, was recently handed an eviction notice; prompting the day of action against Monsanto’s project in Malvinas Argentinas and ongoing presence across the country.

The latest wave of anti-Monsanto protests comes after Buenos Aires Governor Maria Eugenia Vidal appointed former Monsanto executive Leonardo Sarquis as the Minister of Agriculture in the province.