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Mapuche vs Benetton: un-settling the land

It is crucial that Mapuche voices circulate widely, breaking both imposed silences and the image, marketed to tourists, of their land as a conflict-free wilderness. Português Español

By Saskia Fischer
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Chubut Province. Photo by Saskia Fischer: All rights reserved.

 ‘We are fighting for the dignity of our people, to recuperate our lands and to put a stop to the continued destruction of the earth.’Isabel Huala, Pu Lof en Resistencia Departamento Cushamen (The Communities in Resistance of Cushamen Department)

During the early hours of January the 10th 2017, over 200 federal and provincial police brutally raided a rural community of the Pu Lof en Resistencia Departamento Cushamen  (The Lof Cushamen) in Argentine Patagonia. Drones, water cannon, helicopters, horses, bullets, trucks and buses accompanied them to this lof (community) of twenty or so Mapuche – who are the largest first nation in the country.

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