Claudio Andrade
10/20/2020 2:53 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/20/2020 2:53 PM
Peace returned to the Cordillera.
There were 5 days of great tension in which occupations, roadblocks and attacks on police stations by Mapuche militants were recorded.
In the province of Río Negro, officials breathe a sigh of relief at this time, but prefer not to make projections about the immediate future.
There is a coincidence that this
"Mapuche Peace"
can be broken at any moment.
The attacks suffered on Monday by Governor Arabela Carreras in Mascardi, 35 kilometers from Bariloche, left the nucleus of her government concerned.
Carreras tried to talk with the militants of the Lafken Winkul Mapu lof
who kept Route 40 cut off to claim the eviction that was taking place at that time in El Foyel, 50 kilometers from there.
The lof occupies a property in the town since 2017 and they have carried out more than 110 attacks of all kinds against officials, police, neighbors and properties.
The governor hoped to unblock with her presence the cut that delayed the transit of dozens of stranded cars.
In return, Carreras received a torrent of violence that resulted in insults and brutal disavowal by the hooded men.
“
Madam, take them, this territory is Mapuche.
Do you want to come kill us?
We are not afraid of dogs!
No, no, what comes to talk now!
You are crazy!
You are not my authority!
My machi and my lonko are my authority!
I will never believe in you because you are Winkas and I am Mapuche and I have Mapuche blood! "
a Mascardi militant yells wildly.
The event was recorded on video.
Behind the governor is observed dressed in a blue jacket.
"We have to talk, we have to talk,"
Carreras tells him without being heard.
Finally, the Mapuches chose to withdraw from the route after 8 p.m.
“In short, my presence was pacifying, but what I experienced was not pleasant.
My presence there highlighted what the residents of Mascardi suffer.
It is regrettable to have to do this, we would like the law to be complied with and for our neighbors to be able to go home and sleep peacefully, ”the governor told El Cordillerano.
Yesterday, Monday, federal judge Gustavo Zapata ordered the eviction of the route through the use of federal force.
However, the action of the Ministry of Security, led by Sabina Frederic, was delayed.
The Rio Negro Security Secretary, Betiana Minor, confirmed that agents of the National Gendarmerie from La Pampa will arrive in the next few hours to the sector.
Between the Mascardi capture and the gendarmes' post there are about 15 kilometers, a fact that residents who suffer daily attacks have complained about.
This Tuesday, María Nahuel, mother of Betiana Colhuan, the machi who leads the Mascardi takeover, left a message that allows us to envision the future.
“We worthily claim our territory and we are going to continue fighting and I tell our young people to continue claiming what is theirs, that no one is going to scare us or run from our land.
We are going to continue recovering territory, ”Nahuel said during a demonstration held a few hours ago in Bariloche.
Nahuel is the aunt of Rafael Nahuel (22) who died in a confrontation between the militants and the Argentine Naval Prefecture on November 25, 2017.
On the other hand, the eviction from the El Foyel camp took place yesterday without acts of violence and the more than 150 police officers and the special COER group that made up the operation designed by the Secretary of Security and the public prosecutors did not have to intervene. Bariloche and El Bolsón.
There were four detainees
, including Blanca Gallardo, her son, Jairo Luengo, and the woman's husband, Juan Pablo Oyarzo.
The data of the fourth detainee did not transcend.
They are all released today, Tuesday.
Upon leaving the place, Gallardo, a reference to the usurpation of the 400 hectares, assured the local media that they expected her to be "tired" and "in good health", thus ruling out any type of mistreatment during her arrest.
Minutes after his capture in the same territory that he occupied with 50 other people, Gallardo was taken to the El Bolsón police station.
From the Facebook account of the Gallardo Calfú lof, they began to summon residents and indigenous organizations to demonstrate outside the building.
At night, unknown individuals burned branches outside the police station and called for the release of the woman and the other detainees.
In a new hearing, the guarantee judge Ricardo Calcagno charged Gallardo and Oyarzo with the crime of usurpation on Monday.
There are no other people committed to justice in this regard.
The crime is punishable by 6 months and up to 3 years in prison, according to article 181 of the Penal Code.
This Tuesday the field appeared clear and calm, the owners told Clarín.
"Today everything is very calm," said Pablo Mayer, who along with his sister Débora and her husband, Martín Soriani, endured the Mapuche siege without being able to go out to buy food, fuel or water.
The APDH Sectional Bariloche issued a statement assuring that in the El Foyel eviction they observe "two situations that demonstrate a clear political will to attack said community: judicial pressure and false information."
On the other hand, organizations and professionals linked to the Mapuche community spread a message on networks demanding that the chief prosecutor of Bariloche, Martín Lozada, “stop teaching the Open Chair on Human Rights at the National University of Río Negro (Headquarters Bariloche) ”for his participation as an official in the eviction.
The Mapuches have revealed various
dark
stories
about Miguel Soriani that have not been confirmed.
Among them, Soriani made Félix Gallardo Calfú sign the sale of the field in 1980 drunk.
According to the Soriani lawyer, Jorge Paolinelli, in 1969 Félix received the rights to occupy the land from Aurora Reyes de Candia, a member of the occupants of the property since the 1940s. Gallardo Calfú was a pawn of the Candia family and the assignment was a gift in gratitude for their work.
In 1980 the field legally passed into the hands of Soriani by public deed.
Blanca initiated legal actions in 2006 and justice was issued in favor of the Soriani in 2013 and in 2014 where the first ruling was ratified.
