Mendoza: 'anti-Mapuche' caravan against the transfer of land decided by the Government

A crowded

is taking place this Saturday in the cities of southern Mendoza where self-convened neighbors are demanding the decision of the Government of Alberto Fernández to cede part of the territory to indigenous communities.

This is a group of inhabitants who organized to carry out a protest against the resolution of the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) to hand over more than

On these lands there are unconventional crude oil wells that are part of the Vaca Muerta field and other key resources for the province.

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file a complaint against the national authorities for the delivery of the territory.

To this claim was added that of the Mendoza people who inhabit the area in question, who organized a caravan this Saturday morning along the roads of Valle de Uco and San Rafael until they reached Malargüe.

Rodolfo Suárez, the governor of Mendoza.

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"We Mendoza say NO to the transfer of land to the false Mapuches", is the motto used to summon the protesters to the day where hundreds of people mobilize in cars with banners, Argentine flags and honking horns to emphasize their anger at the decision .

Andrés Vavrik, a renowned cattle rancher from the south of Mendoza, was the one who motivated the protest.

The leader -who is also part of the +República group, within the Cambia Mendoza front- launched a flyer through social networks which spread rapidly until it reached a massive reach.

The caravan

when a group gathered in the area of ​​the town of Pareditas, in the department of San Carlos, in the Uco Valley, and started their engines to begin the first part of the journey.

In parallel, another column that had been found in the south of San Rafael also left to later converge on the city of Malargüe.

The axis of the demonstration is the delivery of their lands to the Mapuches, despite the fact that according to the provincial authorities

However, the protesting residents also carry posters in solidarity with the inhabitants of other provinces experiencing similar conflicts.

Among others, they raised their voices for the residents of Villa Mascardi whom they supported with a sign that said "no to the surrender of sovereignty."

Mendoza's complaint to the Nation for the transfer of land to Mapuches

The governor of Together for Change, Rodolfo Suárez,

INAI resolutions for the recognition of the land occupation of Mapuche communities in the southern province.

The briefs, one for each file in which National Resolutions No. 36, 42 and 47 have been issued, were presented last week at the INAI headquarters (Avenida del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires), by the Minister of Government of the province of Cuyo, Víctor Ibañez, and the endorsement of the State Attorney and the Mendoza Government Advisor.

"We have raised all the irregularities of the resolutions, the procedure, the illegality of the extension of Law 26160 ordered by the DNU, the absence of INAI powers to recognize land occupation by the communities and the historical statements about the non-existence of historical presence of Mapuches in the provincial territory, among other aspects," said Minister Ibañez.

One of the questions that the Government of Mendoza

Suarez maintained that it is “a maneuver that is being carried out in Buenos Aires with the complicity of some.

We are going to assert the full weight of the law, politically and everything that has to be done so that what we already see happening in other provinces does not happen in Mendoza”.

Ibañez specified that the Nation issued unconstitutional resolutions from the legal point of view and illegitimate from the historical point of view because in the south of Mendoza "Mapuches never existed."

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