The President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, led an act in the province of Río Negro and did not speak about the Mapuche conflict.
Instead, he ordered the creation of a Federal Forces Command to repel the violence in Villa Mascardi and thus resolve the mapuche conflict. Saying conflict consists of violence exerted by the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) in Villa Mascardi for years.
The governor of Río Negro, Arabela Carreras, received the news of the formation of the force from the president, but he only gave ambiguous statements without much commitment: “We are going to continue working together with the provincial government to solve it. It is clear that nobody wants this issue exist”.
In the words of Carreras: “Argentine sovereignty over Patagonia is under discussion” and he continued his strong statements accusing national officials of collaborating materially and ideologically with the RAM groups and demanded “more firmness” on the part of the Government to resolve the problem.
In the month of October 2021, the governor had asked the Casa Rosada to send troops to contain the situation after a group of people linked to the RAM set fire to a sports club.
In addition, Carreras went against the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI): “it continues in an ambiguous position regarding the sovereignty of Patagonia.” The vice president of INAI, Luis Pilquiman, was charged in 2020 by the Federal Justice of Bariloche for transferring people The occupation of Mascardi and this is what the governor’s phrase about collaborating materially and ideologically with violent groups refers to.
Politicians who support Carreras
These are three national legislators from Together We Are Río Negro: Senator Alberto Weretilneck, and deputies Luis DiGiacomo and Agustín Domingo they described the national government and the Federal Justice as “lukewarm accomplice”.
The three legislators are from the ruling party, but in this matter they respond to Carreras.
