The Mapuche response to Alberto Fernandez: they accuse him of 'Nac & Pop racism' and demand an apology

06/09/2021 21:36

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Updated 06/09/2021 21:36

After different sites in Mexico and Brazil showed their disagreement with the statements of President Alberto Fernández about the origin of the Latin American peoples, the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén released a statement against the Head of State.

He called it "

Nac & Pop racism

" and asked for an "

exemplary apology

."

The avalanche that was generated after Fernández's statements does not stop.

The President said this Wednesday: "Octavio Paz once wrote that the Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. They were ships that came from Europe."

First, the journalistic media of the region and Europe highlighted the phrase of the Argentine president on their covers.

In Brazil, they accused him of being a "

racist

" and in Mexico, the daily Exelsior, perplexed, described the sentence as "

not a joke

."

Alberto Fernández said the controversial phrase this Wednesday, during his meeting with Pedro Sanchez.

Photo: Federico López Claro

Now the Mapuche community of Neuquén also went out to cross it.

He criticized the assertion that the Argentines come from the ships and also questioned whether Fernández says "he's

stupid trying his best thinker's face

before the president of Spain."

They also recalled that "it is not the first time that Fernández has set this position."

They mentioned as an example that, in February of last year, during the visit to the country of the president of France,

Emmanuel Macrón

, he presented himself as "

a Europeanist

" and asserted that Argentine society "

was formed by getting off the ships

."

"It is extremely damaging that a colonial identity is forged from an Argentinean that

impoverishes us as a society

and makes the indigenous nations invisible," they warned from the Confederation.

They also denounced that the president intends to "

erase us from history

" with an offensive speech, "from deep racism."

The Confederation insisted that the phrase "

is nothing more than racism

" by which it is tried to "install in society admiration for a continent that plundered, enslaved, forged its development based on plunder and

destroyed hundreds of millenary cultures

from a

genocidal

practice

, to the detriment of our preexistence ".

By the end of the text, the organization maintained that it intended to leave behind "the racial hatred" of

Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich

but that they did not want to change it for the

racism "Nac & Pop"

of President Fernández.

In this way they asked the Head of State to apologize "

in a clear and exemplary way

" because "the historical memory and the present of

40 original nations demand it

."

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After his controversial phrase, in Brazil they accuse Alberto Fernández of "racist"