Prensa de Frente , Dario Aranda published two days ago an article analyzing the events in Formosa. Just today, one of my many evenings to fart at work, I found it and read it. While three post ago I've been playing this subject, none have the depth or level of information in this article, so why upload it.
clarify: the bold in the text are mine. They are made for the evils that can not read more than five paragraphs followed on the Internet. Just know that the text is worth the effort, socks.
30/11/2010 AFTER THE REPRESSION IN FORMOSA
Human rights? 
By Dario Aranda * - The diaguita Javier Chocobar was killed in the Tucumán October 12, 2009. Sandra Juárez, Santiago del Estero peasant, died on March 13, 2010 when faced with a bulldozer. The Qom Roberto Lopez was killed Nov. 23 when police cracked down Formosa a roadblock which was claimed by ancestral lands. The governor Gildo Insfran is a staunch ally of the Government. Maybe that's why no government official questioned the repression of indigenous people. the contrary: on Thursday at noon President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner shared a video with Insfrán , broadcast live on Channel 7. Smiles and congratulations abounded on the opening of an electrical work. No mention was about the murder. At that very moment, in the indigenous community was buried Roberto Lopez and the government speech defense of human rights came in, perhaps as never before in the world of hypocrisy.
"This Government does not repress social protest. " He said former President Nestor Kirchner many times. He repeated (and repeated) the president, ministers and legislators. It was always an assertion questioned by leftist social sectors and always was, also, the flag of the organic intellectuals of Kirchner. No intellectual or journalist who supports this government denounced the killing and the direct linkage of the national government. Some, at least, reached Insfrán. But not the responsibility of the Government House. Gildo
Insfrán was deputy governor of Formosa from 1987 to 1995. In that year assumed the governorship, a position he held until today. Twenty years in the provincial power. Nothing to fear from the union fat. Insfrán supported Menem and Duhalde Rodriguez Saa. It was the first governors to endorse Nestor Kirchner. Ensued seven years of mutual support.
Within indigenous areas of Argentina, Formosa is seen as one of the paradigms of repression and constant harassment. For decades, communities and social organizations denounce the regime, which has very limited distribution in the media with national circulation. "We demand respect" is the title of AI research on the situation of indigenous peoples of Formosa, which describes the systematic violation of human rights, the dispossession of ancestral lands, structural poverty and a political-state that marginalizes and coercing indigenous people. For two years, Amnesty worked with communities of the province and found the violation of constitutional rights, failures of international law, abuse and institutionalized discrimination, and constraints specific to the military dictatorship, follow police intimidation, anonymous threats and kidnapping. "The provincial government has not only contributed to the violation of rights, but also to reinforce the historical situation discrimination, exclusion and poverty of indigenous communities, "said Amnesty.
The Chief of Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Interior and the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (Social Development dependent) received AI research. Nothing did.
In April 2009, and during a prolonged roadblock, Wichi Pueblo Indians of the road were also killed in Formosa. María Cristina López, 22, and Mario Garcia, 48. Both appealed as well as the community of La Primavera, respect for their rights (enshrined in national legislation and international frondosa) and, all required territory. Mixing died of hunger, cold and curable diseases in urban centers. The national media did not report the deaths. Much less the national government.
When it comes to indigenous peoples exercising a double standard: human rights are for urban areas, means and, where possible, white. Such discrimination complaint from the native peoples for years, but had to have an "authoritative voice" to amplify his grief: "The genocide of indigenous is invisible as a matter of social class and ethnicity," the judge said in 2008 the Supreme Court Justice Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni. And retorted: "In the last military dictatorship was advanced on a middle-class sector active in politics, even with a university segment. Hence it easily recognized as genocide. Everything depends on the social sector suffering repression and its ability to be heard in public. "
Chocobar, Juarez and Lopez, only three of a long list, there were urban middle class. Their deaths do not count (for many sectors) as a violation of human rights.
After the killing of Mariano Ferreyra, ruling and opposition blame over who would charge shot to death and the political cost. The political class and the corporate journalism rotten fish dumped at their convenience. Everyone wanted to break away from José Pedraza. After the repression of the ruling Formosa anyone needed to outline a difference. Assume, and act accordingly, that is Insfrán Kirchner, who is Insfrán kirchnerismo. And the political and social costs of Indian murder does not resemble other deaths. An Indian is not comparable, they believe, Maria Soledad Morales, Carlos Fuentealba, Darío and Maxi. Indian murder appears to have no political cost.
However, the complicity of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner with Gildo Insfran is not the greatest responsibility that you must load the Kirchner. The root causes of the repression of indigenous peoples and rural communities is the model of extraction soybean monoculture, mining, large scale monoculture tree plantations, biofuels and the encroachment of oil are state policies. The Menem created the legal engineering for those industries, and Kirchner is the continuation and deepening of the extractive model.
Just two examples: soybean monoculture and mining grew as much as never before in the last seven years. Never before have so many chemicals were used, was removed and exploited natural resources in the last decade. And the advance of these industries involves the subjugation of the rural poor, with human rights violation costs.
In Argentina, and also on the continent, the extractive model progresses and becomes stronger with the support of provincial and national governments.
Indigenous peoples and farmers have many differences, but a great coincidence: the need for territory, and the conviction to defend. Rural unrest is a logical consequence, and repression is the state and private response to that resistance.
Salta, Misiones, Chaco and Santiago del Estero have nothing to envy to Formosa as the repressive treatment of peasants and indigenous people. All provinces in line with the national government. Like San Juan and La Rioja, where the repression imposed on socio-environmental assemblies reject mining. The opposition also doing their own: Neuquen, Rio Chubut Black and repressive follow the example of Formosa and deserve no criticism of the President.
Néstor Kirchner's death was the fact that motivated intellectuals and journalists to review and highlight the measures that the government just took for the people.
The murder of Roberto Lopez, a native of Qom Village, should be (at least for those who say they side with the people) the right time to denounce the violation of rights human and, above all the political complications that caused these murders. Choosing
silence is like saying that the original people "something be done."
* Journalist. Author of "native Argentina. Genocide and resistance looting "
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