Indigenous rights protester killed by police in Argentina
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An Indigenous rights protester, a member of a Mapuche tribe, was shot dead by Gendarmerie militarized police forces in Argentina.
Rafael Nahuel, 22, was reportedly shot in the back during a court-ordered eviction of the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu protest camp. The incident took place this afternoon near the shores of scenic Lake Mascardi in Patagonia's Río Negro Province, in southwestern Argentina.
Nahuel and two other victims, a man and a woman with bullet wounds in the abdomen and shoulder, were transferred to the Ramón Carrillo Hospital in nearby Bariloche, where the protester died. Two others were detained.
Numerous demonstrations have been called in and around Bariloche, the nation's leading winter tourism destination. Protesters and supporters such as the CTA labor union blame British-born landowner Joe Lewis, who owns 46 mi² around Lake Escondido (just south of Lake Mascardi), as well as the right-wing administration of Mauricio Macri - who has vacationed at Lewis' lakefront mansion as president.
This was the second such case in Argentina in three months.
News of Nahuel's death arrived just hours after the burial of 28 year-old artist and activist Santiago Maldonado, whose disappearance on August 1 during a similar Gendarmerie raid on a Mapuche protest camp further south garnered international attention.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances have criticized the Macri administration for their handling of the case.
An autopsy performed after Maldonado's body was found on October 20 revealed that he had drowned; but that he had died sometime in late August rather than during the August 1 incident, and that his body had been in the water for about a week rather than the 80 days that had elapsed since his disappearance.
His being located nearly a mile upstream from where he was last seen moreover has led his family and rights groups to suspect he may have died in custody, and his body later planted.
"It's very strange that the body was found where it was, when we have searched those same places and there was nothing," his brother Sergio Maldonado pointed out. "We want to know the truth."
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Rafael Nahuel
Lake Mascardi
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After the citizens started putting the pieces together after learning the facts surrounding Maldonado, the Macri government followed it up not with more honorable treatment of dissent, but with reinforcing the hideous acts by open, public murder.
It appears they had dragged Maldonado off somewhere to continue torturing, tormenting, questioning him, for weeks before he succumbed to his evil treatment.
This time they went for the more explicit public execution. Clearly they imagine they have enough power to start moving on to more conspicuous forms of terror against ALL dissent, intending to arrange for terror to paralyze the population with fear, once again.
They chose some very decent people to murder publicly, of course. This is evil, and it has happened before, unfortunately.
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Who is Joe Lewis, usurper of Lago Escondido (Megapost)
JOSEPH LEWIS AND HIS TESTAFERRO, NICOLAS VAN DITTMAR, USURPADORES DEL LAGO ESCONDIDO
In 1996, the English magnate Joseph Lewis, at the request of the local real estate agent, Nicolás Van Dittmar, made himself of a field of 14,000 hectares that completely surrounds all the mirror of water and the shores of Lago Escondido, without allowing free access to this public good This situation gave rise to a lawsuit initiated in 2005, with a decision of the highest provincial court in 2009, ratified in 2013, which obliges the Government of Río Negro to open the access road, an obligation that has been systematically denied.
Not only was there a lot of money for the English magnate to appropriate mountains, forests, lakes and rivers, and thus to build and maintain his private paradise, usurping public goods; there were also murders, dispossession, transfer of tax lands, disenfranchisement of protected areas, cutting of native forests, modification of the territorial order, gifts of all kinds and agreements at closed doors with authorities of various estates and partisan extractions. In addition, the English then began to develop energy projects, private airports and mega-real estate developments without social license, forming corporate partnerships with other large Argentine and / or foreign business groups. Today, if you lower the lever, half the country remains without light.
Why do we say they are usurpers?
We speak explicitly of the usurpation of the Hidden Lake, since it is a public good that being the entire perimeter of the water mirror completely surrounded by this private property and not allowing entry to its shores, this gentleman is in fact occupying a property that does not belong to him; and he is doing it through the use of force, as well as co-opting a serctor of society and co-executing the rest ...
According to the Civil Code of the Argentine Republic, rivers and lakes are public domain of the State (Article 2340), likewise the Constitution of the Province of Río Negro establishes that free access to the coasts of rivers and rivers must be ensured. public lakes, for recreational purposes (art 73). Under these conditions and even when Lago Escondido is completely surrounded by a single private property, it has a right-of-way established by the Government of Río Negro and registered in its own cadastre some time ago, more precisely from the moment in which the unique private property that surrounds all of its coasts was registered. The non-recognition of said servitude on the part of the successive private and of the own officials of the different managements of the provincial government, does not imply, obviously,
Joe Lewis
More, through google translate:
https://www.taringa.net/posts/apuntes-y-monografias/19368232/Quien-es-Joe-Lewis-usurpador-de-Lago-Escondido-Megapost.html
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Lewis starts selling his energy
In March, it is expected that the Lago Escondido power plant will begin the delivery of electricity in El Bolsón. These days, it coordinates with Edersa the technical parameters of the interconnection. It will charge $ 105 for each MWh, a price subsidized by Nation. The hydroelectric power plant, which is fed by the Escondido River, has been completed for months. Patagonia Energía, one of the companies with which the English entrepreneur Joseph Lewis operates in our country, will begin to deliver electricity from its Rio Escondido hydroelectric plant on March 22, according to the information provided by the national authority of the Cammesa electric office.
For now, the power line, which was built underground, is not connected to the El Bolsón transformer station, where the power plant will deliver the energy, because they negotiate the technical parameters with Edersa.
The plant is located within the Lago Escondido property, which is managed by Hidden Lake, to which Patagonia Energía belongs, one of the group's firms. The president of the organization is Nicolás van Ditmar and the main shareholder, Lewis.
Lago Escondido is a paradise where Lewis has a mansion he visits in summer. But it also produces electricity and develops livestock; for now the operation is in deficit.
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President Mauricio Macri, who spent Easter 2016 in the mansion of Lago Escondido , came out a few days ago to defend Lewis and his development. And the National Senator from Rio Negro Magdalena Odarda gave her an open letter inviting him to go through what Van Ditmar called a public road: a step that can only be traveled on horseback and in a journey of days.
More, through google translate:
https://www.taringa.net/posts/noticias/19748449/Lewis-comienza-a-vender-su-energia.html
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Sandensea,
Even more monsters step into the light, once they feel they have the protection needed to be publicly acknowledged. Joe Lewis sounds like a primary goblin. People are right to resist him and his fellow government-protected parasites.
Thank you for informing us. It's only right people everywhere find out what is happening.
Last edited Sun Nov 26, 2017, 03:34 PM - Edit history (1)
Great photos as well; really gives the less familiar reader a good idea of what's involved.
I edited the article to reflect recent corrections in the Argentine press as to the identity of the victim, as well as to add a photo.
This tragedy, like Maldonado's, was bound to happen the minute Security Minister Patricia Bullrich reversed Kirchner-era rules that banned the use of live ammunition by Gendarmerie officers on protesters. She (and Macri) are responsible, and what's worse: this won't be last such incident.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Gendarmerie troops: shoot first; ask no questions later.
