02/04/2021 19:57
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/04/2021 19:57
The leader Qom Félix Díaz denounced that the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla,
asked him to serve as a military officer for the Government
"so that (Mauricio) Macri does not return in 2023", if he wanted to be heard about the problems of his indigenous community.
The suggestion was made by the official at a meeting held yesterday at the agency's headquarters in the former Esma building, to which the Qom leader
was asked to enter without his cell phone
- which he should have left outside -, as he reported this afternoon, in dialogue with Nelson Castro on Radio Rivadavia.
"The treatment was very difficult, we did not expect that negative treatment towards us. They look at us as manipulated by the opposition.
Never in my life have I felt treated as Mr. Horacio Pietragalla treated me last night
," said Díaz.
The meeting was with the national official and with the director of the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) Magdalena Odarda.
"Pietragalla used to say: '
We are going to work with you, but we are going to work on the electoral campaign so that in 2023 we continue to govern and we do not want the macrismo to return.
With that condition,
' and I told him that the Constitution says to recognize pre-existence ethnicity of the Argentine indigenous peoples and that we
do not want them to put on us the shirt or color that the political parties want
; we respect the governments that take office because they have been elected by Argentine citizens ”, explained Díaz.
The objective of the meeting was to demand to "resume the operation" of the advisory council of the body that was created by law in 2016,
to whose designated offices the Qom representatives have not been allowed to enter for a year
.
Horacio Pietragalla, Secretary of Human Rights and La Campora militant, involved in another controversy, this time, with the Wichi community.
"We have personal things there and several times we try to enter but security does not allow us to enter. There is a radio transistor that I want to recover for the community, but
they will not let us even step on the ground,
" complained Díaz, who added that, before Upon entering the official headquarters "they made us put our cell phones in a drawer."
"
Pietragalla told us that he is a member of La Cámpora.
They do not see me as an indigenous person, they see me as a macrista, they see me as an opponent, they tell me
not to use the right-wing media 'because we will not have the chance to help him'
"added community leader Qom La Primavera.
The indigenous leader also revealed that the Secretary of Human Rights did not want to speak with him about the indigenous situation in Formosa: "
He told us that Formosa is not talked about
, that we do not speak ill of Formosa," he added, in contradiction to the meetings that the An official has been dealing with human rights NGOs that denounced mistreatment in the northern province.
The meeting with Díaz was not publicized
on the website of the National Human Rights Secretariat or on Pietragalla's networks.
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