Cultural Survival Expresses Solidarity with the Lof Paillako (Mapuche) in Argentina Facing Forced Evictions

Social Survival calls on the international area to continue to be vigilant and react to any kind of further acts of suppression against the Lof Paillako (Chubut), Lof Rinconada Inalef (Río Negro), Lof Quemquemtrew (Río Negro), and various other maltreated Native neighborhoods. We prompt the Argentinian authorities to end the criminalization and persecution of the Mapuche Tehuelche Peoples, respect Indigenous legal rights, and engage in discussion to safeguard the lives and self-reliance of these neighborhoods.

The Lof Paillako area continues to deal with hazards of violence and variation as they aim to reclaim their genealogical lands in what is now Los Alerces National forest. Cultural Survival supports their fight against the continuous racist and institutional physical violence carried out by both government and provincial federal governments. The organized rejection of the judiciary and the National Parks Administration to acknowledge their rights, together with deliberate acts of physical violence, disclose a clear intent to push the community off their area in favor of powerful landowners.

Cultural Survival stands in solidarity with the Mapuche Tehuelche Peoples of the Lof Paillako community in Chubut, Argentina, whose forced expulsion has been for a moment suspended pending a choice in a federal court. Individuals, thought to be acting on part of powerful rate of interests with stakes in the area, fired gunfires at the neighborhood’s rukas (typical homes) after the lawful choice was made and have been seen patrolling the location on horseback and in lorries ever before because.

In Río Negro, the Lof Rinconada Inalef and Lof Quemquemtrew neighborhoods additionally deal with expulsion and violent assaults. Previously in 2024, neighborhood participant Juan Carlos Villa was eliminated by authorities and gendarmerie pressures during a procedure near El Bolsón, and his boy Emanuel was seriously injured.