Indigenous Peoples achieved a working table with the Paraguayan State
Five thousand indigenous people marched to Asunción to accompany their representatives, who presented the government with 35 points.
Five thousand indigenous people marched to Asunción to accompany their representatives, who presented the government with 35 points.
The Rebellion of the Flowers - a film by María Laura Vasquez - documents the voices and resistance of indigenous women, starting from the peaceful occupation of the Ministry of the Interior in 2019.
Ayelén Mazzina Guiñazú is the new head of the Ministry of Women and Diversity. The minister was appointed immediately after the 35th Plurinational Meeting in San Luis.
“They came in shooting, they came in to kill. Nothing mattered, whether there were children, pregnant women, or elderly people,” says Celeste Guenumil, one of the detainees. Also heard are the voices of the machi Betiana and Romina, who was 40 weeks pregnant.
The Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan (Roundabout of the Women Who Fight) is today a space for denunciation, memory and resistance.
On "National Coming Out Day" we asked our community about their experiences.
Romina Rosas was one of the Mapuche women repressed in Villa Mascardi. At 40 weeks pregnant, she was admitted to the Ramón Carrillo Hospital in Bariloche, without respecting her wishes regarding how she gave birth.
This is how we experienced this 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Transvestites, Bisexuals, Intersex and Non-Binary people in San Luis, Huarpe, Ranquel and Comechingón territory.
A 35th Plurinational Meeting of women, lesbians, trans, transvestites, bisexuals, intersex and non-binary people, full of meaning, in San Luis, with the urgent demand for the release of the detained Mapuche women.
Most Mapuche communities recognize her as a machi in training. It had been 100 years since there had been a machi on this side of the Andes.