The members of the Seventh March for Sovereignty to Lago Escondido during the early hours of this Friday they maintained incessant negotiations with national authorities and those of the province of Río Negro to prevent “acts of violence that put the lives of the militants at risk” of the militants who have been camping since Thursday in front of the mansion of the English tycoon Joe Lewis.
“We continue to insist on protecting the lives of our compañeros and compañeras who camp in Lago Escondidowith two colleagues who continue on hunger strike for an indefinite period of time and we continue to insist on dialogue with the officials of the Nation and the province to guarantee their safety in the face of attacks by the Lewis guards,” Julio César Urien, president, told Télam. of the Interactive Foundation to Promote the Culture of Water (Fipca).
This Thursday, A column of protesters arrived at one of the beaches of Lago Escondido located in front of the tycoon’s ranch and some of the militants announced a hunger strike to demand an exit through the public road of Tacuifí, the same one in which rural laborers who work on that property prevented another group from entering this Thursday.
The The strikers are the priest Francisco “Paco” Olveira and the ex-combatant of the Malvinas War Gustavo Bellidowho this noon will complete the first 24 hours of the measure.
during the early morning The legal actions that seek to preserve the safety of the protesters continued: at 2 in the morning, the group of lawyers that accompanies the leaders of the March for Sovereignty presented a new habeas corpus in defense of the campers in the Bariloche Guarantee Court.
Father Olveira and ex-combatant Bellido decided to start this Thursday a hunger strike until the people who respond to Lewis allow them to leave the shores of Lago Escondido by the so-called Tacuifí public road.
As reported by Urien, “during the early morning the attacks also continued, the verbal threats to the campers, they played music at full volume throughout the night.”
At dawn there was also a communication with the local security minister, Betiana Minor, who was insisted on requesting security guarantees of the protesters.
Starting at noon, some groups that make up the march for sovereignty They will carry out a mobilization to the mayor of El Bolsónwhere they will ask for the “intervention” of the communal chief Bruno Pogliano, so that “there is no massacre on the beach of Lago Escondido.”
They will also carry out “flyers” among residents and tourists with explanatory brochures on the situation in Lago Escondido, Joe Lewis and “the British enclave in Argentina,” according to reports.
