Red Alert! Violent Raids and Arrests in Mapuche Communities in Chubut, Argentina

This criminalization and the raids are mounted within a wider project to deligitimize the struggle and resistance of the Mapuche People through violent and disproportionate actions, including expulsions, raids, criminalization and oppression of the areas by the nationwide federal government in partnership with provincial federal governments. It is not a coincidence that this is occurring in Mapuche areas, which are of great rate of interest to governments and exclusive financiers to accomplish extractive and touristic tasks.

These raids– performed by order of the sentence enforcement court in Esquel, Jorge Criado, and the public district attorney, Carlos Cavallo– occur within the context of wildfires wearing out of control in Patagonia, which need to date ruined over 300,000 hectares. State officials have actually used these fires to additional criminalize the Mapuche Individuals, assuming them of causing the fires, when as a matter of fact, Aboriginal individuals such as the participants of the Linares area in Neuquén have, for days, been fighting to regulate the fires with all the devices at their disposal. Just a day prior to the raids, the guv of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, had referred to Mapuche neighborhoods as “terrorists of fire,” establishing a pretense for the raids.

We require an immediate end to the raids and the criminalization and persecution of the Mapuche Individuals, along with the launch of, and costs went down versus, Victoria Dolores Fernández Núñez, that was unjustly restrained throughout the raids.

Additional news has actually not been available from the Lof Pillañ Mahuiza, where the area– including kids– has lacked accessibility to interaction tools after the violent attack of the Comando Unificado, a lately established government cops unit. Victoria Dolores Fernández Núñez, a member of the neighborhood, was jailed and offered Esquel, where she is being held.