“They came in shooting, they came in to kill. Nothing mattered, whether there were children, pregnant women, elderly people,” says Celeste Guenumil, one of those arrested. Also heard are the voices of the machi Betiana and Romina, 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 any regard for her wishes regarding how she wanted to give 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.
The 17-year-old student was ignored by the institution when he reported the mistreatment and humiliation he suffered at the hands of a teacher. After his suicide became public, the teacher resigned.
The young man was fired from the school where he worked when he revealed he was marrying a man. He will donate the money to an LGBT organization.
The violent eviction in the Lafken Winkul Mapu community shows a modus operandi of racist right-wing groups seeking to seize the land.
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