(6 Jun 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 5 June 2023
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1. Indigenous communities holding flags and banners in front of presidential residence Casa Rosada
2. Women holding flags and Casa Rosada seen behind
3. Wide of protesters standing with flags and banners
4. Pan of indigenous protest at Plaza de Mayo
5. Indigenous women holding flags and speaking among them
6. Raquel Lopez giving an interview
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Raquel Lopez, spokesperson for the Qom community of Chaco state:
"We come here to ask for health services, housing, work, land, it's all we ask for. We also ask some development in the provision of food for the children, dinning facilities and their ID's. Those are the requests we bring to the house of government."
8. Protesters playing drums
9. Protesters assembling tents
10. Indigenous protesters assembling tents in front of Casa Rosada
11. Women inside tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Manuel Malenchini, member of Movimiento Popular 'La Dignindad':
"They bring a story of dispossession and of the displacements, of which they have been victims, taking into account that almost half of who are here tonight no longer live in their territories, because the soybean border has advanced, the border of fodder corn and of corn for biodiesel have been slowly expelling them out of their land. And to this day they have buckled down and are living in the outskirts of the main cities of their region."
13. People inside tents ready to spend the night at Plaza de Mayo
14. Wide of tents, indigenous and argentine flags and Casa Rosada at the back.
STORYLINE:
Members of 32 indigenous communities from the north of Argentina gathered in Buenos Aires to camp in front of the presidential residence Casa Rosada on Monday, to assert their claims over ancestral territories and advocate for their long-standing demands.
More than 100 people from the Qom, Mocovi, Toba, Wichi and Guarani indigenous communities travelled from the far north to camp and expect to be received by some government representative.
Their main claims ask for the recognition of their ancestral lands, to receive better health care and nutrition for the young children, national ID's and access to water and basic services in their territories.
Communities have been campaigning for many years to receive proper support from the local and national authorities, but claim they haven't received any concrete answers yet, and coming to the capital for them is an way to express concern and determination in their demands.
These Indigenous communities inhabit the northern part of Argentina, including the states of Chaco, Salta, Jujuy and the eastern state of Corrientes, areas that mostly have not been developed as thorough as the central part of the country.
In the past decades indigenous land has been increasingly occupied by settlers and land owners who plant trees, soy, corn and other types of crops.
As the ancestral territories of these communities are not fully legally recognized, they are easily displaced by settlers who aim to use the ground for their profit.
AP Video shot by Cristian Kovadloff
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