This Sunday, July 20, the Mapuche communities Ragilew Cárdenas, Kelv Kura, FVTA Xayen and Newen Kura who claimed the Governor Rolando Figueroa las Legal Personeries At the door of the Government House, they suffered a repression with a balance of 21 people injured and detained. The police also took Two 15 and 13 -year -old Mapuche teenagers with a rib fissure due to kicks and shotgun blows.
“It was a fierce repression, there are injuries, there was extreme violencea disproportionate procedure, we take responsibility for the governor Rolando Figueroa, and the CEO of the oil companies that are the ones that really govern the province of Neuquén, ”he exclaimed Lefxaru NawelWerken del Lof Newen Mapu when he was released from the second police station where he was detained with 14 more men.
Surrounded by a great mobilization that requested the release of all detainees stated that there are continuities of government models: “Figueroa is responsible for having reopened the stage of political violence in the province of Neuquén recalling the worst of sobiscism, the worst of the military dictatorship”.
In this regard, he explained: “There are no rights, there are no guarantees, not even having a ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice and having finished a procedure allows communities to have their legal status, and the only thing they have received is violence, we have the videos and witnesses, We will go against all the police, against the commissioners, and political leaders”.
Then, at the door of the 17th police station in the La Sirena neighborhood, where women arrested in repression were released, he exclaimed: “The Mapuche people are standing and dignity will continue their firm fight with all this strength that people have given us.” In turn, he summoned all organizations and people present to a Assembly meeting at the RukaCalle Governor Denis 799, on Monday 21 at 6 pm to decide the steps to follow.
Along the same line, before his release Jorge nawel, Referent of the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, in dialogue with Anred and Lid He thanked the presence of the group of people who approached the second police station and denounced the situation of the detainees, to whom a position of aggravated coercion. Nawel described this “ridiculous” accusation and said that Neuquén’s judicial system “is subordinated to political power,” which, in turn, is “servile to oil companies.”
According to Nawel, this “chain of servility” seeks “scan and give the example that whoever claims will only receive a stick.” The Mapuche reference emphasized that its current demands are minimal: “We are not demanding territory, we are not demanding right to consult“.
Nawel interpreted this situation as the message that Governor Figueroa seeks to convey: “That is the message that Figueroa wants to give, that fake that when the anthem sings is excited, he says, that the first neuquino is believed. Well, this is the neuquinity they want to build: a neuquinity at the service of oil companiesand that everyone who claims will put it as a stick as they did with us. ” They have to know that this is the answer to give this farce of democracy that we are living. “
Given this scenario, the response of the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, according to Nawel, is the same as they have always given: “to be mobilized.” The referent summoned people to “not believe us all the lies they make us, the entertainments that make us. A year and six months ago we are behind this shitting paperand they always comforted us that the next one was going to arrive. What they were organizing was this: repression. “
He denounces YPF, Rolando Figueroa and all political leaders
On July 17, three days before the repression, in the middle of the camp, in the midst of a request for public information that did not have the due response, the Newken Mapuche Confederation, presented a Complaint against YPF, as a legal person, for hazardous waste left in Kaxi Payiñ communitylocated 73 km north of the city of Neuquén, between Route 7 and the Mari Menuco and Los Barreales reservoirs.
That same day the campaign “Let’s save Mari Menuco” was mobilized under the slogan “Without drinking water there is no health” at the doors of YPF to claim the repeal of Decree 276/25 which enables Petròleo’s extraction in an unconventional way (Fracking) in the Isthmus of Lagos Mari Menuco and Los Barreales, where a large water treatment plant works that supplies Neuquén and Centenary with water.
In this context, after repression and recovering his freedom, Lefxaru Nawel had no doubt about the connection between complaints and state violence: “We knew that the return was going to be strong, because this is how this Neuquina oil mafia is handled, which today Rolando Figueroa is the Freek.
Online, he pointed out that the current governor of Neuquén, who recently launched his space Neuquinizate: “It is not a new face, it is not a new air for politics and the Mapuche people are standing and dignity will continue its struggle for everything that corresponds to us” and added: “We know that they will continue threatening us with dirty campaigns, with fake news, as they have done all these days paying advertising and to accuse us of situations that exist only in social networks.”
Nawel described the current moment as a critic, where “Violence is part of the everyday” y “Racial hate speech is part of everyday life“. He rejected the idea that Neuquén is an” island “outside national policies:” Neuquén is always sold as an island is not an island, an island is a damn. Today Figueroa is following the guidelines that are drawing him Milei and Bullrich, and all the consolidated power.
Circulating, he said: “Then let’s not wait for a different treatment. We fute against Milei, but here we have a local version. We are fucking the MPN, which never resolved the conflicts, here we have a modernized version of the MPN.” Finally, he reaffirmed his community’s strategy: “Therefore, not to believe all that farce and know that the only tool we have so that they do not crush us as they want is to be mobilized and organized.”
How was the wild repression to Mapuche communities in the Government House of Neuquén
The eviction order had arrived at 10 in the morning, signed by the Chief Prosecutor Pablo Vignaroli and the prosecutor of the case, Diego Azcárate with the express objective of “identifying and intimating those who were occupying the public space and partially interrupting the circulation by attributing representations of different Mapuche communities.” In addition, he mentioned that the animals grazing in Roca Street had to be removed.
By noon there was a tense dialogue where Jorge nawelWerkén of the Newken Mapuche Confederation, insisted the police to give rise to the claim of chained families. But an operation was rapidly deployed under the leader of the police, Carlos Tomás Díaz Pérez and culminated with 21 people detained.
Police officials threw rubber bullets, threw tear gas, beat and kicked the lonko they resisted. They also punished the solidarity of the people who tried to protect them with more blows and arbitrary arrests. Angelica Lagunas, General Secretary of Aten Capital She was pushed and harassed by a police chief, who was not yet identified and then surrounded by six more troops: “The police do not touch me, do not hit me or push me, They already killed Carlos Fuentealba, what do they want to kill another“He exclaimed.
“I said I have 14”: Story of the Mapuche boy hit by the police in Neuquén
Despite the attempt to protect children, police, under orders of Vignaroli and Azcárate, advanced: “I saw that they wanted to hit my grandmother, I pushed a policeman, got up, another hit me with a stick in my headI wanted to escape, They hit me a shotgun on my facethey threw me on the floor, my sight was clouded, they were like five, they hit me kicks, ”said Melián Antu Pilquiñam to Anred and Lid after melting into a hug with their families.
“I lying the blows that were going to give my grandmother,” said his poncho the 14 -year -old boy, secondary student at CPEM 48 of Villa Ceferino. After the sequence, he had not yet been able to see his grandmother again and had the trail a bored by the police.
Police harassment was also verbal: “I tell him I am minor, and they told me not to be fagthat is not fucking, that I had to bank it, they did not stop hitting me until in the police truck, where my uncle was told that the court did not hit me anymore. ”
Like the rest of the men, Melián was also taken to the 2nd Police Station and then, he was told that they were going to take him to the minor’s police station, but first he was transferred to the health room of the Progreso neighborhood: “As my mother came, they freed me”He said and assured that doctors found blows on the back, neck, legs and head.
“I said I am 14, you are already on the floor, you are not maricon, the police told me,” said Melián Antu Pilquiñam, Anred and Lid outside the 2nd Police Station.
According to Werkén, Jorge Nawel, another child who was also wildly beaten, ended up hospitalized at Castro Rendón hospital with a cracked rib. “He had been tested in a football team, they had selected him and had to travel these days in Buenos Aires, so there is with a broken rib but to come to accompany his mother in such a basic claim, because we are asking for an administrative procedure.”
For its part, Esteban Martin’sJudicial worker and former councilor for the PTS was also detained irregularly: “I was accompanying the peaceful protest of these four communities that have been chained in the sidewalk of the Government House for days without generating any problem even to the population that lives around and from one moment The girls, ”said Esteban Martiné.
On his own arrest, which was recorded by a person who filmed, he mentioned that I was trying to help an older woman That he was being beaten on the floor by three police officers: “We were several who tried to rescue her and that they wouldn’t hit her anymore, but well, those who went there also grabbed us, forced us, dragged us and well, they stopped us.”
For his part, he insisted on police cruelty overwhelmed the rights of the little ones: “There is a 14 -year -old boy who has a fractured rib, there are other companions who also broke their teeth, that they were hanged so strong that they had the mark on their neck,” he said.
Based on his experience in the face of repressions such as those committed outside the Neuquén Legislature by the YPF Chevrón pact, he said: “The truth is that it is a violence that other repressions have lived, I never lived, they did not even allow parents to take their boys, the sons and daughters on the other hand” and added: “They ripped them out of their hands.” In addition, he remained imprisoned with the father of the child of 14 years, and stressed that he had to remain for a long time without also knowing what had happened to the children who had also been victims of this violence.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
