He Government advances with a plan to recover the land that the previous administration gave to mapuche communities. Last week, an agreement was discarded by which the National State committed to delivering more land to groups of indigenous peoples, to the recognition of sacred sites, the construction of homes and to stop eviction processes, according to official sources.
The Kirchnerist management agreement had been signed by the former head of National Parks, Federico Granatothe Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla and by the head of the Institute of Indigenous Affairs, Alejandro Fabián Marmoniamong others.
This Thursday the board of directors meets National Parks Administration to terminate a bailment contract signed at the end of 2021 between that agency and the Archangel San Miguel Foundation for Justice, Equality and Sorority that granted that institution the use of two hectares that belonged to the Universidad del Sur, in the Nahuel Huapi National Park, Bariloche. The loan was signed for 10 years, but the management of Javier Miley will resolve to dissolve it now and ask for the return of the lands. The brand new head of the area, Cristian Larsen, will travel to Rio Negro for this reason.
Meanwhile, the area of National Parks They appeared in eviction cases as plaintiffs, a change in position with respect to the previous management. In turn, audits are being carried out on the state of the properties and today they raised the value of tickets by 75% in nine of the 39 parks that charge admission.
The property in question in Bariloche is a two-hectare plot of land within the circuit of the Cerro Tronador The foundation was represented, in the transfer contract, by Franco García Dellavalle a “popular militant” of the Dignity Popular Movement and cooperative lawyer, close to Juan Grabois, According to him, he identifies himself on social networks. In addition, he was appointed National Director of Financial Inclusion in the Ministry of Economy in 2023, two years after the bailment contract was signed.
At the end of last year, days after leaving the Government and possibly dissolving the area, the Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) recognized dozens of communities of indigenous peoples in different parts of the country. Of the 118 resolutions published this year, 81 were made after the runoff elections, who confirmed to Javier Miley as president-elect and, therefore, the elimination of this institute, according to what the libertarian said. The decisions were published in the Official Gazette on November 30 and December 4.
Throughout the management of the Frente de Todos, it becamen 221 recognitions of indigenous communities. More than half were carried out in the last year of management (118) and more than a third in the last 16 days (81).
In accordance with the regulations, based on these resolutions, a process is concluded that provides communities with a legal opinion or legal report which brings together the legal background of the community, its cadastral information, its properties and ownership over the land that was surveyed. In turn, the Government offers administrative or judicial strategies to pursue their claims on the territory. The technical folder that is delivered is a “tool that, with a future community property law, would make it possible to direct the regularization of the lands,” as described in the INAI information. Furthermore, they are given data about the situation in which the community lives, cartographies and a historical anthropological report.