The Mapuche were coming to the present Argentina since the seventeenth century, forced to leave their territory by English persecution.
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By 1883 it had wiped out more than half of the Mapuche also snatching 95% of its military dictatorship territorio.La washes about 300 Mapuche leaders. Reduced land community of 500,000 hectares to less than 300,000.
Decree 701 of 1974 on the promotion of forestry in regions VII and IX, was used to accelerate the planting of artificial forests in Mapuche territory
major economic groups currently control almost the entire national economy and are owners of the major forestry companies in conflict with the Mapuche communities.
Known as the testimonies are unclear incidents, evictions, expropriations and sadly, mysterious deaths.
The CAI is one of the organizations concerning the indigenous struggle. Its formation dates back to the mid-'80s, when a force of demonstrations and discussions reached an advanced provincial legislation (Law 2287). Two of the most innovative were the expropriation of land to give to the communities and historical research of territorial dispossession, with subsequent restitution.
Only in the last decade, and after exhausting the administrative and judicial, the Mapuche recovered 233 000 acres-once times the area of \u200b\u200bthe City of Buenos Aires, which meant returning to ancestral lands. Backed by international treaties, which have precedence over local laws, recovery involves much more than acres, install a different conception of the earth, which challenges the concept of private property in pursuit of profitability and impersonated by a group occupying space "ancestral lands", which is essential for development and indigenous people.
"Our vision clashes with the interests of capital, which aims to use the territory, and governments, which enable, facilitate and implement new forms of dispossession, "explained from the Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC)
two months ago, this same organization took the lead in the judicial front. In an unprecedented, filed a lawsuit against the state. "We demand legal action for the Black River State to have full and final recognition of the fractions of the traditional territory we occupy. At the same time, so that as the commission investigating the spoils and land theft, and restore the space, "said eleven communities Mapuche.
Based on the Provincial Constitution and international law, the objective the merits of the claim against the State of Black River is a declaration of invalidity of all administrative acts "that blanked the spoils" of the lands traditionally occupied by the communities. The storyline of the complaint can be extrapolated to other peoples: "The theft of land was and is widespread against the Mapuche people. The mechanism of theft and failure being conducted by the State is to the detriment of communities and the benefit of others, including the State itself. "
Fuentes.
- Page 12/12 October 2009 - The country- "Five centuries after" , "Back to Earth" by Dario Aranda.
- Art action: Stones in the Road - Natalia camilo - http://ojoapologico.blogspot.com/
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