Immolate, LIVES IN EACH
THIS IS THE EXPLANATION THAT LEADS TO BE PRESENT 26TH TO 30TH AUGUST CURRENT SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, NEUQUEN, after four years THE MURDER OF CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ
Immolate, LIVES IN EACH PATAGONIA RIO
not know who he was. He knew only that he would speak "for free access to the shore of rivers and lakes." There was the man, absorbed, allowing an indelible smile, grin, last speaker of a panel of activists, bright eyes, something moist but without tears, content.
image of Angel Gonzalez
befall me always, at any point of abstraction or God knows where, like so many representations, sometimes sleepy, psyched without notice, permit sudden. The Second Latin American Seminar, shared and designed by the Ombudsman of Neuquén, "Water as a Human Right" held in the English Cinema Theatre in that city, was the setting for my meeting with Angel Gonzalez, trying to read
; in each of his words the pain of a father. What claim to want to look beyond what is looming. What guilt offering the attempt. The August 30, 2006, Cristian Gonzalez and two friends were fishing along the river Quilquihue, which rises in Lake Lolog, near San Martin de los Andes. Cristian was attracted and enjoyed the sport. While they were fishing from the Andean huts, where they were against them, they fired several shots that went over their heads flush. At the request of explanations for Cristian, private guard, Horacio Calderón, fired a fatal shot in the neck. Since then, his family and friends are demanding justice. The gunman was thirteen and a half 'imprisonment, but the employer of the bungalows, Gaspar Schor, who hired the private guards and provided the gun that was not declared "in no time paid accounts done.
The fences on the river Quilquihue were never removed, imprison its current privacy proposing illegitimate business. Schor What happened? Ill have to wander around Buenos Aires and non-return to Patagonia. The oracle says that the burden neighborhood that carries through the streets of Buenos Aires is very heavy.
In these times of persecution, indictment and systematic repression of people who defend their rights, death became routine, and these stories are like many others that occur throughout our territories, overwhelmed by capital influential individuals and illegal, and therefore haunt the silence of the everyday, the vulgarity of it become a habit, the routine of killing, as if death were an impertinence. people opted for life and
Cristian Gonzalez is present in numerous writings, songs, songs and flags, is the image of the Association for Free Access Rivers and Lakes coasts, visiting schools in the Patagonia in campaigns that advertise "Knowing Our Rights", in Pocachullo radio Friday, on "cost-free, free citizens" in all environmental organizations, social, political and union "in the fight for freedom of moving our rivers and lakes and in defense of national sovereignty," says Angel Gonzalez, his father explaining the photographic survey do now, in
rivers and lakes in the region, demonstrating how to build docks sordid interests and prevent illegal access to the coast with thousands of wires privatize public. Cristian today is emblematic of human rights in graffiti that says "not a single wire on Patagonian rivers and lakes, there are murals Neuquén with his face almost adolescent demanding justice and respect for all. remember there was a time that we try to lead a campaign against the padlocks on the gates in Patagonia, a debt that we still have pending. In Patagonia is frequent appropriation of property belonging to the common and conclude in the hands of national or foreign magnates such as Joe Lewis of Lake Escondido, the Ted Turner River Mining in Estancia La Primavera, the Benetton of a million hectares and also Domenico Tinelli Panciotti and tourism project with Trafipan 2000, usurping ancestral Mapuche. The case of the employer Panciotti is more representative because the Swiss Embassy in Argentina challenged for the first time an investment protection agreement, the Treaty of 1991 - in a dispute with the Mapuche indigenous people.
finishing foreignization not define what we mean, whereas the term disposal proposes to collect the misnamed natural tarnishing laws such as Article 2340 Civil Code that makes absolute freedom and public good "the rivers and navigable lakes and their beds, "while Article 2639 requires that" owners adjacent to rivers or canals that serve the communication by water are forced to leave a street or public road of 35 meters to the edge of river or canal, without any compensation. The landowners can not do in that space any construction or repair old ones that exist, or damaging the ground in any way. " But none of this is respected. A cluster of kickbacks and bribes wasteful enable the installation of chains, lying perimeter fences that deny access kilometer and freedoms that the Constitution protects. A clear shot killed Cristian and temporarily confined to the performer, usually bullies police salary with private plate or simulated
care-faunas, running codes induced by landowners gatherers territorial water, soil and biodiversity, and to some degree of circumventing the courts. Not business as usual for Cristian is in every living river in Patagonia and, slain, persists in many activities as the project of reforming the City Charter of San Martin de los Andes, which requires the creation
an environmental advocacy and ensuring free access to community banks of rivers and lakes. Pain and justice, transformed into social movement, they endure in the memory the figure of a young man who claimed the right to fish in a river where he was born.
Javier Rodríguez Pardo
Antinuclear Movement of Chubut (MACH) - Patagonia Ecological Systems (SEPA) - National Ecological Action Network (REBORN) - Union Citizens Assemblies (UAC).
cntact: rioslibres.cristiang @ gmail.com
(02972) 429051 San Martin de los Andes.
machpatagonia@gmail.com
Buenos Aires 011 1567485340
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