Claudio Andrade
10/09/2020 18:04
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/09/2020 18:04
The national government offered the Mapuche community, which keeps 30 hectares occupied in Mascardi, 35 kilometers from Bariloche, a total of
625 hectares in a fiscal land in Río Negro
in exchange for abandoning the seizure that began in November 2017.
As
Clarín was
able to confirm
, the lawyers of the Table for Alternative Resolution of Aboriginal Communities proposed at the end of September to the lof Lafken Winkul Mapu to give them a “
Colonia Pastoril” where they could develop agricultural activities.
The equivalent of 625 hectares.
Ironically, the project of the Pastorile Colonies was elaborated during the government of Julio Argentino Roca, who is considered an enemy of the Mapuche people since his intervention in the Desert Campaign.
In 1912 the Ministry of Agriculture, led by Wenceslao Escalante, began to encourage the settlement of settlers in the Cordillera by
granting national or foreign families of the so-called Pastorile Colonies
of 625 hectares -a quarter of a league-, an area considered sufficient to start business. farmers.
The final purpose was to settle the population and thus prevent advances in the region by the Chilean State.
The government of Alberto Fernández recovered that historical figure to offer them to the Mapuches who occupy Mascardi today.
Clarín
accessed detailed information on the alternatives of the meeting held on September 8 by a group of residents of Mascardi with the Minister of Security, Sabina Frederic, the Secretary of Federal Security Coordination of the Ministry of National Security, Gabriel Fucks , accompanied in the background by representatives of Human Rights, the Administration of National Parks and Security and the Secretariat of the Environment and Sustainable Development.
The National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI), led by former senator Magdalena Odarda, was not present although its representatives have spoken profusely with the occupants in recent months, this newspaper confirmed.
Over the course of two and a half hours, the officials explained to the neighbors that they were going to make an attractive proposal to the lof.
It consisted of going back to the two lands of the Nahuel Huapi National Parks - lots 7 and 14 of two and four hectares respectively -
occupied in November 2017 and where Rafael Nahuel died
that same year during a confrontation with the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
They also stressed that they were going to warn them that they should maintain peace in the place while they looked for a productive space called "Colonia Pastoril" in which they could exploit the land.
The information had not been leaked until now because the officials demanded that the neighbors
total confidentiality about what was expressed in this meeting.
Something that they respected until
Clarín
revealed this Thursday, October 8, the national government's plan on exchanging land for peace.
Neighbors expressed their disbelief and dissatisfaction with the officials at the advance that was not agreed with them.
“The progress of the negotiation was reported at the September meeting where I stated that I did not agree.
They summoned us and talked about a negotiation but I do not consider myself part of any negotiation table ”, explains to
Clarín
Juan Greham, owner of La Escondida, the first private property to be usurped and dismantled by members of the community.
The government's proposal contains several problems of various kinds, according to the vision of the neighbors.
“It seems like one more irony that they have been offered a Colonia Pastoril that is a plan of the Roca government, a topic that I know well because I am a lover of the history of the Nahuel Huapi region.
Are they going to accept an idea from Roca?
Another issue is to think that these people, who live by state plans, which they repudiate, are going to work a huge area of land, ”says Diego Frutos, owner of La Candelaria.
"At the meeting, they mentioned the possibility that they would first stay there until they found a suitable land for agricultural activities, something that seems difficult in Río Negro," said Luis Dates, owner of the Los Radales cabin.
Dates was also the first to make it known that the national government planned to hand over land to the Mapuches.
The 625 hectares would be
taken from the fiscal territory owned by the State in Río Negro.
From the province, led by Arabela Carreras, they prefer to stay out of the discussion for now, but acknowledge that finding a productive space of such magnitude will be a complex task.
“It does not occur to me what is not today National Parks in the Cordillera and what is fiscal what could have these productive characteristics.
Anyway, it is fiscal terrain and they can grant it to whoever they want, we cannot intervene, ”says a senior provincial source.
"The decision of whether to accept or not is already in the hands of the Mapuches," says this source.
When the young machi Betiana Colhuan discovered the
Nahuel Huapi National Parks
grounds
in Mascardi
, she assured that the “newen” of the forest had indicated that this was the place to develop her profession as a healer.
According to the machi, unique medicinal plants grow in the occupied sector that are used to prepare her ancestral recipe book.
This was the
central reason for the occupation
, according to various Mapuche sources in the community.
"I believe that the Newen who spoke to him worked in National Parks," says an affected neighbor in relation to the fact that "someone" passed the data on the "free" land to the Cohual-Nahuel family regarding the usurpation.
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