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Tension, mistrust and lack of dialogue perpetuate conflict over land ownership; the place where the young craftsman died continues to be occupied and other sources of tension have emerged; Justice and the government still do not find the means to channel the situation
This place, where Maldonado spent his last night, is today ash and burnt pots. According to the community version, he was burned by Benetton employees. Hard to know what happened in this place without reliable witnesses.
Andrea Millañanco, a couple of Jones Huala, is the one who commands the community and his
werken (spokesperson) on the outside. Aguerrida, is the only one who decides who enters the premises. "We all live here," he says. However, many members of the group come and go
lof to the humble districts of the high place of Bariloche where they work. They move with their children, in the middle of harsh winter, and bring materials to the countryside.
The 78 days in which
Santiago Maldonado was missing
(between August 1 and October 18, 2017) marked a spike in tension between the Mapuche group and the government. They were two and a half months of speculation and false rumors in a scenario of extreme political nervousness.
After the discovery of the body in the Chubut River, the tension is still felt today. The territorial conflict has added another home, Villa Mascardi, where a Mapuche occupation has unleashed violent clashes with security forces. There, the Mapuche Rafael Nahuel died, killed by the prefecture on November 25th.
The occupants of Leleque and Villa Mascardi are strongly linked, even by family ties. On the two causes of usurpation of new incidents are folded, in a spiral that can not find a peaceful solution.
The conflict crosses the localities of the region. There, some point to Mapuche groups as those responsible for sabotage and violent acts and others support indigenous activism. It is no wonder that in the schools of the original Mapuche children live with children of gendarmes or penitentiaries. If there is a strong polarization in Bariloche, many families of security forces are concentrated in Esquel, and in El Bolsón, artisans and anarchists join the Mapuche movement.
"The extremist group of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) is increasingly isolated, they are few and lose their support because of their extreme position," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, a year after the operation of the gendarmerie.Although there were graffiti and pamphlets recorded at the RAM, many do not believe that he has any real activity in Argentina.Huala Jones himself is elusive in getting himself referring to the organization. "I came from RAM and they brought me out to be detained," he said months ago.
From the South Compañía de Tierras, Benetton group, they claim that there are already "50 complaints" against Resistencia Cushamen. "These people are acting with violence, impunity and uncontrolled," they say
On August 5, the "mother" cause will be repossession due to the usurpation, theft of cattle and the possession of firearms against Jones Hu ala and six other Mapuches In this proceeding, the provincial prosecutor Oscar Oro had withdrawn the accusation against the Mapuches on May 8. But the judge of Esquel Martín Zacchino gave an intervention to the Chief Prosecutor of Chubut, the prosecutor Jorge Miquelarena, who overturned the decision.
Thus, after three months of suspense, the preliminary hearing of the trial will continue on August 10. against Cushamen Resistance.
The traces
The two causes that were opened by the disappearance of Maldonado are still open, with the same covers:
habeas corpus and enforced disappearance. The current judge in the case, Gustavo Lleral, considers that changing the title of the file, as the government claims, would involve an opinion.
The politicization of the case aroused great concern among this judge who, after a negotiation with the community, ordered the raking that he gave to the body. "The interests of the game are reissued again and again," the magistrate often repeats to his relatives. After one hundred days of exclusive dedication to the business, Lleral returned to Rawson and resumed the usual activity of his court
.
Maldonado case
was carrying out an expertise in the DNI of the young craftsman, in addition to the planimetry work to determine the circumstances that led the artisan to throw himself into the river during the operation of the gendarmerie.
asks the family of the young man, who still believes that the body could be planted in the river. Lleral, however, did not give way to other demands of the defense, which despite the body's conclusion, showed strong disagreement with the investigation.
The Maldonado family lawyer, Verónica Heredia, requested the intervention of an impartial team to investigate the case, which was dismissed by the judge, who considers that guarantees of Independence are given. Now he has to define the Supreme Court.
Based in Bariloche, where he developed a cottage business, Sergio Maldonado exudes the thick air that surrounds the Mapuche conflict every day. With the case judge in Rawson, the prosecutor in Esquel and the appeals in the federal capital, the cause of his brother today is going through his days.
Because, besides the judicial trip, the case has added as a visible face of various human rights organizations and political opposition groups. Sergio Maldonado took the stage in the march this week against the decree that extends the intervention of the Armed Forces. However, he must refuse a candidacy for 2019. "I'm not in any political party, they want to mess me up," he said.
The demand of the business, added to the duel and the unfavorable economic context, complicates today his routine and his work His life took a turn after this 1st of August. "Santiago is solidarity, the state is responsible" was the slogan that he chose to direct the act a year after the events.
The judges
Guido Otranto, first judge of the Maldonado case, continues to be responsible for the court of Esquel. From a judicial career in Comodoro Py, in his office all records of the community Resistencia Cushamen fall. This is the judge who ordered the eviction of the road and the one who initiated the search for the craftsman, but he lost the case when he predicted in an interview with
THE NACION that the tattoo artist could be in the river.
The Federal Chamber decided to withdraw it because he felt that he had advanced his opinion. Otranto today can not dine at a restaurant in Esquel without receiving insults. A year ago, the judge lived surrounded by police, but today, in his house in the semi-rural area of Trevelin, he no longer has the custody that has been granted to preserve his security against possible attacks. Esquel fell into a complex political scenario. He was publicly criticized by the late Governor of Chubut, Mario Das Neves, when he released Jones Huala in 2016 and insulted by Mapuche communities.
The judge competed to occupy an oral court of General Roca. But his future is uncertain. The judge adds two requests for
jury to the Judicial Council, one of them after we know that the phone Sergio Maldonado stepped in to listen to his dialogues with members of the
lof.
At the Ministry of Security, one year after the events, defends the actions of the gendarmerie this August 1st. "The goal was to build a false story, we could not deliver a policeman convinced that they had no responsibility, it would have been politically correct exit, but we stayed in our truth" , explains Patricia Bullrich a few days before the anniversary of the disappearance of the young tattooist
In the security forces promotions and two voluntary withdrawals were recorded in the squadrons of Esquel and El Bolsón, but it n & # 39; There were no sanctions. Second Lieutenant Emanuel Echazú, the uniformed jaw wounded officer and the only defendant in the case, was promoted to lieutenant
"The gendarmes are grateful for the support they have received from the government ", emphasizes Bullrich anticipating that he will visit the squads that have been the focus of the conflict in the south. August 1st is the anniversary of the disappearance of Maldonado and a day later, the gendarmerie celebrates its 80 years of existence. There will be an official act.
One year after the events that put the country on hold, the Maldonado case was not closed and the positions found no meeting point. The government has coordinated actions with the governors of Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén, but for the moment no peaceful outlet is perceptible
In Patagonia no one raises the white flag.
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