The fires that broke out on February 16 and 19 in Trevelin and Los Alerces are out of control, with little response from the authorities. The Nahuelpan Mapuche community is in danger. Three of the people responsible for the January fires have been identified.
In Paraguay, community kitchens have historically been a grassroots response to hunger, an act of resistance and solidarity. During times of greatest economic and social crisis, women in neighborhoods and communities organize these kitchens, using a wood or charcoal stove and a large pot to prepare the food.
He gained international recognition in 2022 with his short film "Argentina is not white," which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, but he has been involved in art since a young age. Discovering the work of "Identidad Marrón" (Brown Identity) changed his life and his political and artistic perspective.
These are people who openly displayed their identity: feminist activists, a couple walking hand in hand, another couple living together in a home, and one of them was even returning from an assembly prior to the massive march on Saturday, February 1st.
Austrian academic Judith Görtz, a specialist in hate speech, believes that feminist advances face massive backlash "that are used strategically to exploit social fears.".
The judicial and media persecution of Mapuche communities in Argentina continues. After evidence was presented, Victoria Núñez Fernández, arrested during a raid on the Pillán Mawiza community, was placed under house arrest.
February 19th is the International Day Against LGBT Hate in Sport. Experiences around the world and the advance of an anti-rights offensive targeting trans people.
For trans people in Latin America, being over 40 means being a survivor. For decades, older transvestite and trans women in Argentina have organized to demand a law of historical reparations that addresses the state violence they have suffered over the years, as well as building networks in which they construct memory and everyday resistance.
Protests in the provinces of Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén, in the City of Buenos Aires and in many localities of the country demanded that the fires be extinguished, that the criminalization of the Mapuche people cease, and that Victoria Núñez and Nicolás Heredia be released.
In a press conference, Chubut Governor Ignacio Torres disseminated a hypothesis developed by the Judiciary. Without evidence, based on disinformation and distorted data, they accuse Mapuche people from Chubut of starting fires in that province and in Río Negro.
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