Have hated Benetton since learning of the landtheft, and vicious history toward the Mapuche.
A quick google grab, will be looking for more, later, as I need to find out more:
Argentina: The Second Conquest of Patagonia’s Indigenous
BY THE OUTPOST – POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
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By 1870 in Argentina, General Julio Argentino Roca led a military campaign known as “The Conquest of the Desert.” Through systematic genocide and land theft, they established dominance over Patagonia Argentina.
Multinational Corporations and their owners, as Benetton, Joe “Hard Rock Cafe” Lewis, Ted Turner of CNN, Meridian Gold mining corporation, corrupt government officials, lawyers and businessmen alike, appropriated large tracts of land. Some of these properties are acquired legally, but most common are cases of illegality through shady deals, elusive and strong-arm tactics, completely at odds with the rights of the Mapuche and other non-Aboriginal people in the region. The tools used are the threats and in some cases death.
The film follows the stories of five families and communities in the area, as they describe the ongoing land conflicts they face. Through testimonies of individuals involved, as well as by other local experts (lawyers, journalists, community members, researchers), it shows the relationship between the various cases. The mechanisms of plunder and corruption may vary slightly from case to case, sometimes through threats or actual violence, sometimes through false paperwork, sometimes through “legal” but deceitful tactics. And the interests behind them also vary, from forestry to mining, to real estate, to tourism.
The Mapuche people native to Patagonia lived semi-nomadically on both sides of the Andes, in what is now Chile and Argentina. In the 1880s, brutal military campaigns by the Chilean and Argentinian governments finished a two-century-old project that wiped out the majority of the population and left survivors scattered in the most isolated and inhospitable land around, which of course no white folks wanted. Until recently, when they discovered profitable mineral deposits under it. — Denali DeGraf
More:
https://www.wilderutopia.com/international/humanity/argentina-the-second-conquest-of-patagonias-indigenous/
Thank you for bringing this new information here today, sandensea. It's so important this evil done to so many indigenous people will be avenged, and corrected, no matter how long it takes.
Unspeakable evil, and such an old, filthy story all over the world. It will be addressed as the human race becomes cleaner, and it will. Count on it.
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