Standoff in Patagonia.

BERRIES; MAPUCHE (South American people); HUMAN rights organizations; LAND Back movement

THE MAPUCHE STRUGGLE for cultural survival is intimately linked to the Indigenous land-back movement taking place in both Argentina and Chile, and to similar movements by Indigenous peoples across the world to right historic injustices, combat cultural erasure, and protect their ancestral lands against rapacious extraction. FEATURES LAST SEPTEMBER AS WINTER chills began to ease, members of a Mapuche community called Lof Quemquemtrew reclaimed a piece of land in a wooded valley known as Cuesta del Ternero in the Andes mountains of Argentina's Patagonia region. The consolidation of the border between Chile and Argentina along the Andes mountain range split the Mapuche land into two. A solidarity camp has sprung up to stare down the police line, where community members unable to return to the encampment keep vigil with Mapuche from other communities and non-Mapuche supporters. [Extracted from the article]

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