The Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia ordered the Lof Pailako Mew to be evicted, since according to Judge Javier Legal de Ibarra, they were “illegally” occupying a sector of the Los Alerces National Park in Chubut.
The judge, in a clear racist ruling, defined that the Mapuche people and the Lof Pailako Mew, an ancestral people that pre-existed the constitution of the national State, have usurped the lands they recovered in 2020 and from which they had been forcibly evicted.
The ruling, by the Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia, is a response to pressure from the provincial government, said by the governor of Chubut himself, Ignacio Torres, and the National Parks Administration under the presidency of Cristian Larsen, who demanded the eviction of the Lof Pailako Mew and accused the justice system and the judges, in the first place, Judge Guido Otranto had ordered the eviction of the lands, but it could not be carried out due to the appeal presented by the community, for which the Governor of the province and the president of National Parks accused them of being “slow” in applying the eviction order.
Governor Ignacio Torres, who persecutes environmentalists, teachers and members of indigenous peoples, trying to be like his friend, the nation’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, spoke out during his participation in the Esquel Bovine Expo saying that “there are “We must enforce the law and not allow criminals to appropriate what does not belong to them.” And he recalled that “his government was the first to file a complaint and request the intervention of the Nation to carry out the eviction of the usurped lands.”
This afternoon, Judge Leal Ibarra confirmed the eviction order: “It is duly stated that Cruz Cárdenas and María Belén Salinas were assigned to a Mapuche community that occupied the area called the former Población Felidor Salina as of January 2020. That said occupation does not It was peaceful, nor ‘traditional’ – as the Attorney General points out in her opinion – and that although they are descendants of settlers who had permits to occupy land within the Los Alerces National Park, no precarious permit has been granted to them. about the area that they specifically intend – and that is the object of eviction whose current legal representative turns out to be Mr. Mariano Salina, grandson of Felidor Salina, holder of the grazing and occupation permit in the area, since July 12, 1940.
This attack on the native communities is an attack on their ancestral rights to the territory they inhabit and claim. We ratify our unconditional support for the territorial claim of the Lof Paillako and repudiate the eviction order to the Community. This offensive against indigenous peoples and these rulings that enable new evictions and dispossession of their ancestral lands have one objective, to give free rein to extractivism.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
