10/21/2020 9:29 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/21/2020 9:29 AM
Amidst the tension over the usurpation of land in Río Negro and the province of Buenos Aires, the Jujuy Police evicted a land grab in the
Tusca Pacha
aboriginal community
, located near the town of Palpalá.
During the operation there were struggles, the officers fired rubber bullets and there were
four detainees, among them
Anastasia García
, provincial coordinator of the Secretariat of Family, Peasant and Indigenous Agriculture, which depends on the Ministry of Agriculture of the Nation.
All were released a few hours later.
The eviction was ordered on Tuesday morning by order of the control judge Jorge Zurueta,
based on the claim of a real estate company
.
According to local media reports, the company claimed its property right to a two-hectare property located on the banks of the Los Alisos River, in which the aborigines maintained a community garden and a cornfield.
According to reports, the Police disarmed some boxes in the area, without advancing on the houses in which a hundred families still live.
The troops remained guarding the area to prevent the evicted from returning.
The procedure was attended by councilors and provincial deputies from the Frente de Todos, opponents of the radical Gerardo Morales government, who tried to prevent the judicial measure.
García, the detained national official, questioned in dialogue with the
Télam
agency
that the procedure was carried out "with more than 50 police officers with firearms" and that
"they made children, the elderly and pregnant women run
.
"
He also criticized that Judge Zurueta "ordered the eviction turning a deaf ear to the rights of the community."
For his part, Deputy Emanuel Palmieri, from the Frente de Todos, complained about the actions of the Police and assured that "the people were peacefully."
"
They targeted me and the deputies were targeting them. It is a shame
, I hope there was this police movement when our girls, our children disappear," he said.
Meanwhile, the president of the Tusca Pacha community assured that her grandparents lived on the lands that were evicted.
“We are strong, country people who have the capacity and we continue to survive in this land.
The eviction came to us,
ignoring all the evidence that we have presented as an original community
”, he stated.
Aboriginal referents denounce that the provincial justice only addresses the claim of the real estate development and that, in addition, "it violates
law 26,160
that prohibits evictions of indigenous communities that are in conflicts with third parties."
Along these lines, they stressed that they have documentation that would prove that they initiated processes to gain access to legal status and that "
the State does not want to recognize the community as pre-existing
, as a native people or community organization."
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